...Albert Tucker The Dominion Partnership in Imperial Defense, 1870-1914 . By Gordon Donald C. . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press , 1965 . Pp. xiv , 315 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 296 The South Atlantic Quarterly The notes to the Herbert are poor...

... with the Dominions and colonies but nothing done along that line would free England from an economic dependence on Europe ;3 some political relations with the Continent were also inevitable. In matters of defense the Dominions have little to fear any more in the way of an attack or an invasion 1 A. B. Keith...

...Harry W. Porter Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 CHURCHILL AND THE EMPIRE Harry W. Porter WINSTON CHURCHILL arose in the House of Commons one day in June, 1947, to announce that his party would offer no opposition to the granting of dominion status to India. He was silencing his...

... Solution of the Problem of Empire 315 The first decade of the present century saw in existence five autonomous Dominions, namely, Canada, Newfoundland (recently acceded to Canada by decision of its own electorate), South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. In internal affairs they were complete­ ly self...

... and en­ riched by the association of the three new nations of the Indian 448 The South Atlantic Quarterly subcontinent, the idea was emerging from the growth of Dominion status among the overseas members and the development of new and fruitful means of consultation between the Dominions and the United...

... on Marvell! DUKE UNIVERSITY GEORGE W. WILLIAMS The Dominion Partnership in Imperial Defense, 1870-1914. By Donald C. Gordon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965. Pp. xiv, 315. $7.50. The British Empire in the late nineteenth century still attracts historians. If the constitutional problems seem to have been...

... concessions to the desire of the Dominions for independent forces and to back down on the issue of their control. But intricate details had to be resolved of enabling imperial officers to join colonial services without prejudicing their pro­ motions, of establishing general staffs in the Dominions...

... insights into the various considerations which governed London s policies during that tumul­ tuous period.1 Moreover, the dispatches, telegrams, letters, and memoranda contained within the British Cabinet, Foreign Office, Dominions, and Premier files afford a fresh perspective of both British and Irish...

..., friendly cooperation with the United States is for us a cardinal principle, dictated by what seems to us the proper nature of things, dictated by instinct quite as much as by reason and common sense. The Dominions were equally aware of the paramount importance of American friendship. Though Canada...

.... But, by comparison at least with the colonial policy of most other nations, it is true that to this day British policy has placed relatively more emphasis on eco­ nomic aspects than on political controls. The case of the Dominions offers the best illustration of this traditional policy. The reaction to the loss...

... in two early seventeenth-century cases that were also central to the contem­ porary debate over parliamentary power in the dominions : Bonham s Case (1607), in which Coke held that the common law was superior to parliamentary statutes, and Calvin s Case (1608), a contrived case in which he ruled...

... century. But the British came as close as any nation to maintaining a hegemony: even the shrinking dimensions of the Pax Britannica al­ lowed Britain and her outlying dominions great influence within the Pacific littoral in the nineteenth century, but only as long as British naval strength divided...

... not go so far as to tax foreign food imported into England. Without such a preference in their behalf the Dominions would profit little by the policy of im­ perial preference. The development of an imperial policy seemed definitely estopped at the very moment Lord Melchett, Jan Smuts, and the press...

..., satisfied men. The Empire itself, meanwhile, is divided into dominions, crown colonies, native states, protectorates, mandates, and other political, bluebook subdivisions of an official nature. Some sections have military government, while others are representative, responsible, or virtually independent...

..., by secession or the development of dominion status, grew into free and autonomous nations, equal in status to the mother country, sharing the British concept of political liberty. This development was largely due to the English experience of local self-government. By the time Englishmen began to migrate...

... land in England or in the Dominions. The Small Holdings Act of 1907, from which so much was expected in England, was largely a failure on account of the lack of business capacity in the individuals who settled on these holdings, of lack of facilities for co-operative purchase, sale, and distribution...

..., shall pass upon the question of lawlessness and injustice in backward countries and thus prevent what will other­ wise occur, namely, the inevitable extension of foreign dominion over them. The group of people in the United States who favor a further extension of dominion is a negligible factor. Yet...

... is professor of international relations in the Australian National University. Among his books are The Commonwealth in the World {3d ed., 1965) and Britain and the Old Dominions (1966). This paper was read at the Duke Center for Commonwealth Studies. Britain and the Commonwealth 187 shall be talking quite...

... invisible the racial constitution of the space as white and deny the primordial attachment of whiteness to citizenship. Said another way, I am naming the spatial configuration of white dominion that renders belonging for whiteness (as owners) and nonbelonging for non-whiteness (as visitors), where...

... of the volume. Mahatma Gandhi is presented in the role of persistently and consistently striving to steer a course that would lead to demands for Dominion sta­ tus rather than for Independence, holding that eventual Independence might be best maintained through the vehicle of a Dominion. BOOKS RECEIVED Calvin B...