From Empire to Commonwealth

Principles of British Imperial Government

Edited by Jack Simmons

Odhams Press, no date, [First Edition], hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ details stamped on front endpaper, minor marks to front cover; clipped dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping, creasing and tears, small part missing from top spine corner (see photographs)

“This book may be called a political anthology.  It is designed to illustrate some of the main principles of British imperial government through a selection from the original documents in which those principles were set forth and developed.
Although the approach of the book is historical, it is not concerned with doctrines and ideas of the past, which are now dead: it is dealing all the time with modern principles that are alive and significant today – with the constitutional position of the Dominions, with the growth of self-government in the tropical colonies, with native administration and the idea of “trusteeship”.”