Crisis Of The British Empire
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Signed by the author David Nicholson. In 1880 the British Empire was at its peak of stability. No other people - not Rome, nor Spain nor Russia - had spread their power so substantially over all five continents. And yet within less than a century, the vast imperial system had crumbled leaving the Commonwealth as the mere ghost of its predecessor. In this new study, David Nicholson asks if thise decline was inevitable, or - had Britain's rulers taken different decisions, encouraged trends or sought to prevent them - whether the strength and cohesion of the Empire could have been maintained. He examines, in particular, a series of turning points which he believes to have been crucial to this process: the failure to deal with Irish Home Rule; over-extension in Africa; the failure to adopt Tariff Reform; the British inability to reach an accommodation with Germany before the First World War; and many others.
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