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 of Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth, Australia and BritainImperial Constitutional Documents, 1765-1965, A Supplement and British Colonial Developments, 1774-1834.DAVID FIELDHOUSE is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, the senior imperial chair at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Jesus College. He is the former Beit Lecturer, successor to Frederick Madden, and is the author of The Colonial Empires, Economics and Empire, 1830-1914 and Unilever Overseas, which won the annual award of the Business Archives Council in 1980.

• PrefaceSecretaries of State (September 1839-September 1903)Imperial Authority and Colonial Autonomy: Some General ProblemsThe Nature of the Imperial AssociationMetropolitan AdministrationThe Development of Colonial Responsible GovernmentThe Assertion of Colonial Commercial AutonomyThe Problem of Imperial and Colonial DefenceThe Extension of the Law of EnglandThe Achievement and Working of Responsible GovernmentBritish North AmericaAustraliaNew ZealandSouth AfricaThe Extension of Self-GovernmentBritish North AmericaAustraliaNew ZealandSouth AfricaMovements Relating to, and the Working of, Federal GovernmentBritish North AmericaAustraliaNew Zealand--The Collapse of a Quasi-Federal Government and the Rejection of Australasian FederationSouth Africa--A First Attempt at FederationIndex

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 of Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth, Australia and BritainImperial Constitutional Documents, 1765-1965, A Supplement and British Colonial Developments, 1774-1834.DAVID FIELDHOUSE is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, the senior imperial chair at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Jesus College. He is the former Beit Lecturer, successor to Frederick Madden, and is the author of The Colonial Empires, Economics and Empire, 1830-1914 and Unilever Overseas, which won the annual award of the Business Archives Council in 1980.

• PrefaceSecretaries of State (September 1839-September 1903)Imperial Authority and Colonial Autonomy: Some General ProblemsThe Nature of the Imperial AssociationMetropolitan AdministrationThe Development of Colonial Responsible GovernmentThe Assertion of Colonial Commercial AutonomyThe Problem of Imperial and Colonial DefenceThe Extension of the Law of EnglandThe Achievement and Working of Responsible GovernmentBritish North AmericaAustraliaNew ZealandSouth AfricaThe Extension of Self-GovernmentBritish North AmericaAustraliaNew ZealandSouth AfricaMovements Relating to, and the Working of, Federal GovernmentBritish North AmericaAustraliaNew Zealand--The Collapse of a Quasi-Federal Government and the Rejection of Australasian FederationSouth Africa--A First Attempt at FederationIndex

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 of Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth, Australia and BritainImperial Constitutional Documents, 1765-1965, A Supplement and British Colonial Developments, 1774-1834.DAVID FIELDHOUSE is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, the senior imperial chair at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Jesus College. He is the former Beit Lecturer, successor to Frederick Madden, and is the author of The Colonial Empires, Economics and Empire, 1830-1914 and Unilever Overseas, which won the annual award of the Business Archives Council in 1980.

• PrefaceSecretaries of State (September 1839-September 1903)Imperial Authority and Colonial Autonomy: Some General ProblemsThe Nature of the Imperial AssociationMetropolitan AdministrationThe Development of Colonial Responsible GovernmentThe Assertion of Colonial Commercial AutonomyThe Problem of Imperial and Colonial DefenceThe Extension of the Law of EnglandThe Achievement and Working of Responsible GovernmentBritish North AmericaAustraliaNew ZealandSouth AfricaThe Extension of Self-GovernmentBritish North AmericaAustraliaNew ZealandSouth AfricaMovements Relating to, and the Working of, Federal GovernmentBritish North AmericaAustraliaNew Zealand--The Collapse of a Quasi-Federal Government and the Rejection of Australasian FederationSouth Africa--A First Attempt at FederationIndex