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 ...

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Lionel Curtis
Macmillan and Company, 1918 - Colonization
 

Contents

Supremacy of law
95
Representation defined
101
Maladministration the cause of Pontiacs rising 1763
106
Map to show relative areas of the English and Athenian
106
Conditions determining enlargement of commonwealths
107
The Spanish Armada 1588
108
4
109
6
120
NOTE B Recent attempts in the United Kingdom to anticipate
121
His development of ocean shipping
127
Of North America by Cabot 1497
133
THE OPENING OF THE SEAS ITS EFFECT IN THE EAST
143
Diagram to illustrate responsibility for backward races
156
Success of British Empire due to institutions not race
173
Religious toleration in English colonies
177
Its incapacity to bear it permanently
180
Their relative capacities for colonization
187
Success of the English due to liberty
210
10
214
General results compared
216
11
237
THE COMMERCIAL SYSTEM
238
companies
246
12
252
Virginia Companys attempt to open foreign trade
257
Events leading to execution of Charles I by English Parlia
263
Consequent deadlock
270
The scheme sanctioned by the Scottish Parliament
276
Control of foreign affairs assumed by Scottish Parliament 1703
283
Negotiations for a parliamentary union opened
289
NOTE A Scotland and the Scottish Parliament in the Middle
296
1 In creating a preference for slave colonies
311
NOTE E Difficulty of enforcing Navigation Acts and institution
314
False psychology of the commercial system
318
The Olney despatch 1895
324
Capital moved to Constantinople A D
330
Defect in solution attempted by British Government
337
His real objections
356
The Stamp Act passed 1764
364
Distinction of internal and external taxation accepted by Towns
370
NOTE A Influence of commercial ideas on colonial policy
378
The Irish army a departure from the colonial system
456
Volunteers demand parliamentary reform
475
Pitts amended proposals
486
Pitts proposals dropped
492
Catholic relief mishandled by Fitzwilliam 1795
501
Humberts invasion of Ireland 1798
510
NOTE A Grattans argument compared with Edward Blakes
523
CHAPTER VIII
540
Colonists committed by secession to testing the theory
542
Evacuation of Boston by Howe March 1776
549
Dependence of Congress on French and Spanish subsidies
555
Yorktown October 19 1781
561
Washingtons efforts to correct these evils
568
Theory of voluntary cooperation advanced by the colonists
569
The national debt
579
Bankruptcy of Congress February 1786
588
Pericles and Socrates on mutual duty as the basis of common
613
Destruction of Western Empire A D 476 and rise of Franks
622
Why in settling their relations the Dominions must be treated
628
The Missouri compromise and its effects
634
Why force was necessary for the maintenance of American
641
Jackson General
642
Charlemagne crowned Emperor of the Romans A D 800
643
Law moulded by experience the basis of freedom
646
NOTE A Washington on the need of a permanent army
648
The Constitution of the United States of America
660
Jackson Richard 388
671
CHAPTER IX
678
German and British ideals contrasted
685
Americans divorced from responsibility for backward races
692
The weakening effect of the schism
698
Conclusion of the whole matter
705
And also of the French autocracy
710
INDEX OF NAMES
711
French skill in handling Indians
712
The German failure to realize statehood
713
of Scotland
717
Consequent failure to realize freedom
719
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