Government of the West Indies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Wrong, Hume

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331542871 ISBN 13: 9781331542872

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Government of the West Indies This book is intended to serve two purposes, and I am conscious that these purposes may appear at times inconsistent. It is designed, in the first place, to supply for the student of the constitutional history of the British Commonwealth a brief account of a neglected phase of that history; and, secondly, to provide an historical background for those who are interested in the political problems of the West Indies to-day. Those who refer to it for this second reason will probably not take great interest in such matters as the working of the old system of representative government in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or the early history of British Honduras, or the first federation of the Leeward Islands. Those who take it up with the first object in view will find two chapters at the end which are not historical in character, and which have been included because it seemed that it might be well for a disinterested outside observer to try to draw some of the more obvious conclusions from the course of past history, even if these conclusions were only valuable for the purpose of refutation. Little historical research in the scholarly sense has gone to the making of this book. It is based only on the more easily accessible of printed records, and it is intended to be no more than an outline. The West Indian colonies have received almost no attention from the scientific historian, and such attention as has recently been paid to them has been confined mainly to the first hundred and fifty years of their settlement. There is plenty of work still to be done before our knowledge even of recent events is moderately complete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format

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Excerpt from Government of the West Indies

My acknowledgements are due to Professor Coupland of Oxford University and to the Right Hon. L. S. Amery for advice and assistance; to Sir Sydney Olivier, k.c.m.g especially, for much valuable criticism, without which this book would have had many more defects and to the Rhodes Trustees for their generous assistance in bringing about its publication.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331542871
• ISBN 13: 9781331542872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198