Colonial policy
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
English imperialism · colonial policy · the growth of English imperialism
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The attitudes of English statesmen and thinkers toward the colonial empire, traced from Benthamite hostility to later imperial policy.
His book is the application to our colonial policy, by a man of good sense and political experience, of the tenets propounded by Bentham.
One feature of English policy is sufficient to show the slight importance attached at one time to the connection between the mother-country and her dependencies.
” The leaders of the Manchester school, who represented the ideas of Benthamite liberalism, assuredly deplored the existence of our colonial empire.
The Rights of War and Peace
Principles governing the administration of colonies and dependencies.
Adam Smith’s “Essay on Colonies” presents an introductory view of the principles governing colonial policy.
Sir George Cornewall Lewis’s “Government of Dependencies” is characterized by the accuracy of its information It is a reliable text book for the guidance of any nation in the treatment of its dependencies and colonies.