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...
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 ...
The biology of Miniopterus australis was investigated in north-eastern New South Wales (latitude c. 30S) between 1960 and 1966. In this area the species reaches the southern limit of its distribution and is largely confined to the subtro... PD Dwyer - 《Australian Journal of Zoology》 被引...
Due to their harsh winters and infertile land, the New England colonies could not rely on agriculture for their food or income as the southern colonies did. Instead, the New England colonies had to find new ways to make money. Fishing and shipbuilding were common trades in the New England ...
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? Explore our homework questions and answers library ...
Military history The British occupation of southern New York during the American Revolution and the failure to restore civilian government SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY James R. Sharp MannFrank PA decade of political unrest over the question of parliamentary taxation resulted in the development of an alternate ...
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:...
Geography of Australia 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...