BIBLIOGRAPHY
Before beginning the direct study of British Colonial Policy, the reader should familiarise himself with the accounts of early voyages in Hakluyt’s and Purchas’ standard works, new editions of which have recently been published. The publications of the Hakluyt Society should also be read. By these means we are able to realise the circumstances under which a Colonial Empire became possible. Mahan’s Influence of Sea Power upon History shows the conditions upon which alone such an Empire can be maintained. Seeley’s Expansion of England must always serve as the starting-point for every student of colonial policy. The late Mr F. J. Payne’s Colonies and Colonial Federations , 1904 (in the “English Citizen” Series), will be found very suggestive. The introductory volume to Sir Charles Lucas’ Historical Geography of the British Colonies, entitled The Origin and Growth of the English Colonies, by H. E. Egerton, may also be consulted. Herman Merivale’s Lectures on Colonization and Colonies, 2nd ed., 1861, still remains a standard work, while perhaps the best general account of European colonization is De la Colonisation chez les peuples modernes, by M. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, 2 vols., 6th ed., 1908. A. G. Keller’s Colonization, 1908, is a good general introduction to the subject. Sir Charles Lucas’ introduction to the 1891 edition of Sir G. Corne wall Lewis’ Essay on the Government of Dependencies should be consulted; and Sir Charles Dilke’s Problems of Greater Britain, though it deals for the most part with the lessons to be drawn from the political and economical experiences of the Colonies, is full of suggestion with regard to subjects such as Federation, Imperial Defence, etc. The constitutional and legal aspects of British Colonial Policy should be approached with Todd’s Parliamentary Government in the British Colonies, 2nd ed., 1894, and Tarring’s Statutes relating to the Colonies, 2nd ed., 1893. On the subject of Chartered Companies consult the Early Chartered Companies, by G. Cawston and A. H. Keane, and Les Grandes Compagnies de Commerce, par P. Bonnassieux, 1892.
Passing from general books, the main division will be between— A, Books relating to the American Colonies before the Revolution ;
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