’s land surface and more than one-quarter of its total population. The idea of limited self-government for some of Britain’s colonies was first recommended forCanadabyLord Durhamin 1839. This report proposed “responsible self-government” for Canada, so that a cabinet of ministers chosen by...
As a result, though the population of the subcontinent increased dramatically from about 200 million in 1872 (the year of the first almost universal census) to more than 319 million in 1921, the population may have declined slightly between 1895 and 1905. The spread of railroads also ...
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At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, although only 4.1 percent of the population in Chile were foreigners, 31.7 percent of commerce was in the hands of immigrants, principally from Europe, and many of them were British. More than 30 percent of Chile's imports at that time ...
In 1914, 69% of the population lived in towns bigger than 5 000 inhabitants.The question of the nature of popular "needs" opens up debates about material needs and social needs, alienation and possible false consciousness. Should we consider compensatory validation and collective relaxation as ...
After the start of World War I in 1914, the British government began internment of enemy alien men, disrupting the large German population settled in the c... AL Macenczak 被引量: 0发表: 2010年 Island of barbed wire : internment on the Isle of Man in World War Two Summary Drivers for...
The Dutch East India Company had founded the Dutch Cape Colony on the southern tip of Africa in 1652 as a way station for its ships travelling to and from its colonies in the East Indies. Britain formally acquired the colony, and its large Afrikaner (or Boer) population in 1806, having ...
in religion, social attitudes, and culture. The book divides the era into four chronological periods, with chapters on the political background, administrative development, and social, economic, and cultural changes in each period. Exploring major themes such as the massive increase in population, ...
Large areas of central and N British Columbia are sparsely settled; almost three fourths of the population is crowded into the southwest coastal tip in the Georgia Strait region. Victoria is the capital. The largest city and chief port is Vancouver, which grew rapidly throughout the 1980s, exp...