The Dependent Empire and Ireland, 1840-1900 ― Advance and Retreat in Representative Self-Government, Select Documents on the Constitutional History O

This volume deals with those dependencies of the Crown for which it was considered premature to concede fully representative government, and also with Ireland where the union with Britain made in 1800 was coming under increasing strain. The documents in this volume illustrate the ways in which Britain attempted to devise forms of government it was thought would be more suitable for dependencies that had few British settlers who might successfully operate a representative system--and where the majority of indigenous peoples needed protection against such a minority.

FREDERICK MADDEN is Emeritus Reader in Commonwealth Government, Nuffield College, Oxford University. He was previously Beit Lecturer in Colonial History and is the author or coeditor ofOxford and the Idea of Commonwealth, Australia and Britain, Imperial Constitutional Documents, 1765-1965, A Supplement, andBritish Colonial Developmets, 1774-1834.

DAVID FIELDHOUSE is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, the senior imperial chair at Cambridge University, and Fellow of the Jesus College. He is the former Beit Lecturer, successor to Frederick Madden, and is the author ofThe Colonial Empires, Economics and Empire, 1830-1914,

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and Black Africa.