andthe"Improvement"ofthe World. By Richard Drayton (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000) 346 pp. $40.00 Nature's Government spans the biblical Garden of Eden and William Thistelton-Dyer's accession to the post of botanical advisor to the British Secretary of State for the Colonies in ...
but only after intense debate and six years of experience with an earlier federal union. The 13 British colonies in America declared their independence from their motherland in 1776. A year before, war had broken out between the colonies and Britain, a war for independence that lasted ...
Southern Rhodesia and responsible government The granting of Responsible Government to Southern Rhodesia in 1923 was perhaps one of the most extraordinary acts of the Imperial Government in the twentieth century. Winston Churchill, who had been Secretary of State for the Colonies a... JM Mackenzie ...
The Aboriginal peoples had little resistance to introduced diseases such as smallpox that were transmitted down the Murray River system in advance of the arrival of European settlers on the southern coast. European exploration of southern Australia was slow and intermittent. In 1627 the Dutch East ...
A country of southeast Europe on the southern Balkan Peninsula and including numerous islands in the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Ionian Seas. Settled by Achaeans, Aeolians, Ionians, Minoans, and Dorians by 1000 bc, the region grew as an amalgam of independent city-states, many of which establ...
How have gender roles changed in the last 40 years? From your perspective, what are the current shifts in global stratification and how does this affect the economic and political power of the United States? How did slavery influence the society and economy of the southern colonies?
A number of factors affected this apparent reversal of intent, including fears for the security of Britain's remaining colonies in southern Africa and the need to retain the use of the Simonstown naval base, though the most important influence was the desire to safeguard export earnings.doi:...
after gathered the first Baptist church in America. He also did the most to prevent the ruin of all these colonies by the Indians, of any one man in the country. Thus he overcame evil with good; while the advocates for the use of secular force in religion, have requited him, and his...
Australia is a country in theSouthern Hemisphere, south of Asia, nearIndonesia,New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. It is an island nation that comprises the Australiancontinentas well as the island of Tasmania and some other small islands. Australia is considered a developed nation, and it has...
by which time the Greeks had not only adapted thePhoenician alphabetand begun to found overseas colonies but also brought nearly to maturity thecity-state(polisinGreek, from which the termpoliticsderives). This form of government was the great political invention of classical antiquity. (See also...