The Commonwealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Citizenship in the British Empire, and Into the Mutual Relations of the Several Communities Thereof ...

Lionel Curtis

Macmillan and Company, 1918 - Colonization

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION	1

A commonwealth including all levels of civilization	15

Pericles and Socrates on mutual duty as the basis of common	28

League of Delos 477 B C	40

Extension of Roman citizenship	54

The German failure to realize statehood	71

Growth of national states on the Continent	77

The mediaeval belief in universal monarchy	83

Distinction of internal and external taxation accepted by Towns	370

Nature of citizenship and its inexorable claim	377

Tendency of English statesmen to discourage growth	383

688	413

Survival of the tribal system	422

Quarrel between levels of civilization embittered by Reformation	429

Ireland conquered by Cromwell 1649	436

Flood demands an Act of Renunciation	473

CHAPTER II	89

Insular character of England and its consequences	95

British constitution produced thereby	103

Law moulded by experience the basis of freedom	106

Conditions determining enlargement of commonwealths	121

The monopoly disputed by England	139

Conflict of freedom with autocracy precipitated by struggle	141

Struggles of Dutch English and Portuguese	145

Incorporation of India in the Commonwealth	152

Turkish conquest of Constantinople 1453	157

Why the Commonwealths rule has been accepted	163

Success of British Empire due to institutions not race	173

Its incapacity to bear it permanently	180

Their relative capacities for colonization	187

French skill in handling Indians	194

Unsuitable character of first settlers	200

Sterilizing effect of French system in Canada	210

NOTE A Interdependence of order and liberty Dufferin	222

NOTE ERealpolitik as expounded by Mostyns counsel	230

CHAPTER IV	238

NOTE A Origin of the old colonial system	257

Events leading to execution of Charles I by English Parlia	263

NOTE A Scotland and the Scottish Parliament in the Middle	296

CHAPTER VI	302

2 In fostering smuggling in Northern Colonies	313

NOTE E Difficulty of enforcing Navigation Acts and institution	314

Patriotism weakened by want of exercise	320

Not Imperial but American interests and charges the matter	326

NOTE A Washington on the need of a permanent army	330

Maladministration the cause of Pontiacs rising 1763	337

Incapacity of colonial assemblies to settle boundary disputes	342

Defect in solution attempted by British Government	343

Advocated by Otis Franklin Smith and Grenville	349

His real objections	356

The Stamp Act passed 1764 Its effect on American opinion	364

Volunteers demand parliamentary reform	482

Pitts amended proposals	486

Failure of Hoche to land at Bantry Bay 1796	504

Humberts invasion of Ireland 1798	510

CHAPTER VIII	540

Colonists committed by secession to testing the theory	542

Disillusionment of Washington	548

Failure of requisitions on states Paper money	554

Howe superseded by Clinton May 1778	560

Effect on army of political disorganization	566

Failure of states to pay off the army	573

The Articles of Confederation	577

Refusal of States to concede customs to Congress	579

Bankruptcy of Congress February 1786	589

Growth of anarchy and Washingtons comments thereon	601

CHAPTER IX	602

Principle of representation realized therein	607

Provision for incorporation of future colonies	613

Burkes argument examined	619

Two conditions necessary to the union of commonwealths	626

89	638

Why force was necessary for the maintenance of American	641

THE SCHISM OF THE COMMONWEALTH IN ITS AFTER EFFECTS	678

Freedom jeopardized by the schism of the Commonwealth	687

The weakening effect of the schism	695

The Imperial problem and what it	701

NOTE A Recognition of the Commonwealth by backward races	707

90	710

439	710

INDEX OF NAMES	711

91	712

Trade and industry developed by Cromwellian settlers	713

American constitution produced by the Albany Conference 1754	716

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Title	The Commonwealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Citizenship in the British Empire, and Into the Mutual Relations of the Several Communities Thereof ... The Commonwealth of Nations, Lionel Curtis Volume 1 of The Commonwealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Citizenship in the British Empire, and Into the Mutual Relations of the Several Communities Thereof, Lionel Curtis
Editor	Lionel Curtis
Contributor	Round table
Publisher	Macmillan and Company, 1918
Original from	the University of California
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