(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (formerly) the United Kingdom and the territories under its control, which reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I when it embraced over a quarter of the world's population and more than a quarter of the world's land surface ...
’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...
Imperial economic exploitation, however, did prove to be an excellent nationalist catalyst—as, for example, when Gandhi mobilized the peasant masses of India’s population behind the Congress Party during his famous Salt March against the salt tax in March–April 1930, which was the prelude to ...
Population trends of breeding birds in British woodlands over a 32-year period: relationships with food, habitat use and migratory behaviour. Ibis 151, 464-486.Hewson, C.M. & Noble, D.G. (2009) Population trends of breeding birds in British woodlands over a 32-year period: relationships ...
Barbara Jennings15, Rory Bowden16, Peter Donnelly2 and Walter Bodmer1 There is a great deal of interest in a fine-scale population structure in the UK, both as a signature of historical immigration events and because of the effect population structure may have on disease association studies. Al...
Similarly to humans, rhesus macaques engage in mother-infant face-to-face interactions. However, no previous studies have described the naturally occurring structure and development of mother-infant interactions in this population and used a comparative-
As one AI9 officer put it, ‘a handful of progressive prisoners’ had ‘persuaded their chums to undertake voluntary study’; and, since there was no coercion involved and the discussion leaders were British rather than Chinese, over a quarter of the British population at Pyoktong chose to ...
By the end of the 19th century, the British Empire included about a quarter of the global population and a quarter of the world's landmass. 维多利亚时代见证了第二大英帝国的建立。维多利亚女王从1837年开始统治,直到1901年去世,这是英国历史上所有君主中最长的统治时间。维多利亚的时代几乎在各个方面都...
One of the last regions of the North American continent to be explored and settled, British Columbia emerged in the second half of the 20th century as one of the leading provinces of Canada in population, economic wealth, and overall growth. Its main cities includeVancouver, one of the larges...
” On the other hand, some segments of the Black African population benefitted from the conflict by some measure. Black farmers in some areas prospered, owing to the wartime demand for food. In some regions, such as the western Transvaal, Black Africans took advantage of the war and re...