Dominion

Abstract: I It ought to be a commonplace that Great Britain during the 19th century expanded overseas by means of “informal empire” as much as by acquiring dominion in the strict constitutional sense. For purposes of economic analysis it would clearly be unreal to define imperial history exclusively as the history of those colonies coloured red on the map. Nevertheless, almost all imperial history has been written on the assumption that the empire of formal dominion is historically comprehensible in itself and can be cut out of its context in British expansion and world politics. The conventional interpretation of the 19th-century empire continues to rest upon study of the formal empire alone, which is rather like judging the size and character of icebergs solely from the parts above the water-line.

Abstract: Herbarium containing primarily vascular plants of the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Virginia and North Carolina.

Abstract: List of Illustrations - List of Maps - List of Tables - Preface to the First Edition - Preface to the Second Edition - Preface to the Third Edition - Acknowledgements - PART 1: THE PRELUDE TO WHITE DOMINATION - Section 1: The Setting of the Human Problem - From the Dawn of History to the Time of Troubles - The Birth of a Plural Society - The Enlightenment and the Great Trek - Section 2: Chiefdoms, Republics and Colonies in the Nineteenth Century - African Chiefdoms - Boer Republics - British Colonies - Section 3: The Struggle for Possession - White and Black: The Struggle for the Land - Empire and Republics: The Breaking of Boer Independence, 1850-1902 - The Shaping of a White Dominion - PART 2: THE CONSOLIDATION OF A WHITE STATE - Section 1: The Road to Afrikaner Dominance - Union under Stress: botha and Smuts, 1910-24 - The Afrikaner's Road to Parity: Hertzog, 1924-33 - White Unity, Black Division, 1933-9 - Smuts and the Liberal-Nationalist Confrontation, 1939- 48 - Section 2: The Designing of a 'New Model' State - The Age of the Social Engineers, 1948-60 - Internal Combustion, 1956-64 - Modification and Backfire, 1964-78 - At the Crossroads, 1978-90 - Salesmanship: Ethnasia contra mundum, 1945-85 - Section 3: The Political Economy of South Africa - The Economy and the People of South Africa - The Cancer of Apartheid - Bibliographical Notes - Index