ABSTRACT
This volume discusses a short history of British Colonial policy. With all its faults the book represents much reading and some thought. In writing what is, to some extent, a history of opinion, it has been impossible altogether to suppress my own individual opinions. I trust, however that I have not seemed to attach importance to them. In dealing with the later periods, I remembered Sir Walter Raleigh's remark on the fate which awaits the treatment of contemporary history; but obscurity may claim its compensations, and atleast I am not conscious of having written under the bias of personal or party prejudice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|44 pages
The Period of Beginnings 1497–1650
part 2|224 pages
The Period of Trade Ascendency 1651–1830
part 3|79 pages
The Period of Systematic Colonization and of the Granting of Responsible Government 1831–1860
part 4|90 pages
The Period of the Zenith And Decline of Laissez-Aller Principles. 1861–1885
part 5|30 pages
The Period of Greater Britain 1886 onwards