CONTENTS

FAGR

A List of Dates bearing upon Colonial Policy . . xiii

Introductory ....... i

BOOK I

THE PERIOD OF BEGINNINGS

CHAP.

I. Early Attempts at Colonization ... 13

II. Virginia under the Virginia Company ... 23

III. The Colonies under Charles I. . . . - 39

BOOK II

THE PERIOD OF TRADE ASCENDANCY

I. The Colonial Policy of Parliament and Cromwell . 57

II. The Administration of Clarendon ... 67

III. The Colonies under the Later Stuarts . . 86

IV. The Colonies under William III. and Anne . . 114

V. The Period between the Treaty of Utrecht and the

Seven Years’ War . . . . . 138

VI. The Eve of the Crisis . . . . . 17°

VII. The Stamp Act and its Repeal .... 187

VIII. The American Revolution .... 205 >:

IX. Canada ........ 234 ^

X. Colonial Policy after the Loss of the American Provinces — Australia and Cape Colony — The Slave Trade and Slavery .... 256

BOOK III

THE PERIOD OF SYSTEMATIC COLONIZATION AND OF THE GRANTING OF RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT

I. The Influence of the Ideas of Gibbon Wakefield . 281

II. The Introduction of Responsible Government . 302

III. Cape Colony, 1830-1860 ..... 336

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