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Burt A. The Evolution of the British Empire and Commonwealth From the American Revolution
Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., - 950 р.
I have attempted to explain a subject that is admittedly much too large and complicated to be mastered by anyone in a whole lifetime. It began to intrigue me forty-five years ago, when I was a student of the late Professor Egerton and lived in daily contact with other students drawn to Oxford from all over the empire. It provided the theme of my first book, which came out as I "went down, " and it has been a major interest ever since. The present volume begins with the success of the American Revolution because this has had an enormous and far-reaching effect on the evolution of the British Empire. I have sought to present this evolution as an organic whole, arranged around dominant ideas and forces, rather than as a collection of unrelated episodes. Personalities, however interesting in themselves, have been kept to a minimum; and so also have the details of internal history of each part of the empire. As no man can really understand his own country until he looks at it from the outside, nor understand another country until he somehow gets inside it, I have tried to combine both views in this account of what has happened to the British Empire since the thirteen colonies broke away from it. I am indebted to so many scholars and friends for help in writing this book that a list of them would fill another. To all those who have read portions of the manuscript, I give my special thanks.
