Download or read book The Sovereignty of the British Dominions written by Arthur Berriedale Keith and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1929 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speeches and Documents on the British Dominions 1918 1931 written by Arthur Berriedale Keith and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sovereignty of the British Dominions written by Keith and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Sovereignty and Judicial Autonomy in the British Commonwealth of Nations written by Hector Hughes and published by London : P.S. King & Son, Limited. This book was released on 1931 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters written by Thomas Wemyss Fulton and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the claim of the English crown to the sovereignty of the British seas became a question of international importance in the early part of the seventeenth century, the records of history and the treasures of ancient learning were searched for evidence to establish its antiquity. Some of the greatest lawyers and scholars of the time took part in the task, and they were not always content with the endeavour to prove that the claim was in conformity with the laws of England as an old heritage of the crown, but they tried to trace it back to a remote past. Selden, who was incomparably the ablest and most illustrious champion of the English pretension, as well as Boroughs and Prynne and other writers of lesser note, laboured with more or less erudition and ingenuity to show that the British dominion in the adjoining seas was anterior to the Roman occupation. From the ancient Britons it was supposed to have passed to the Roman conquerors as part and parcel of the British empire, and to have been exercised by them during their possession of the island. It is unnecessary to discuss the evidence and arguments for these contentions. They are for the most part drawn from scattered passages or even phrases in the writings of classical authors, to which a strained and improbable significance was assigned. An example may be given from Selden, who, in referring to the well-known passage in Solinus in which Irish warriors are described as decking the hilts of their swords with the tusks of sea-beasts (walrus), first tries to show that the passage applied also to the Britons, and then argues that there must have been a great fishing and a large number of fishermen to provide sufficient material, the conclusion being that the British seas were “occupied” by navigation and fishing. In reality the walrus tusks came by barter from the north, and there is little or no evidence to show that the ancient Britons fished for anything except salmon. At the utmost it may be said that the Romans were masters of the British seas, or parts of them, in a military sense. During their occupation of Britain they were also in possession of Gaul, and thus held both coasts of the narrow sea, and no doubt exercised authority over it, as the Norman and Angevin kings under similar circumstances did later. Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period of English history evidence of the existence of a sovereignty over the adjoining sea, or even of a pretension to it, is almost as unsatisfactory. Here again the authors who championed mare clausum professed to find in very ordinary events arguments in favour of their case. The seafaring habits of the Teutonic invaders and their daring and valour—they were described by the Roman poet as sea-wolves, fierce and cunning, with the sea as their school of war and the storm their friend—were regarded as proof that they possessed maritime sovereignty after their conquest of Britain. The Danegeld, a tax which was originally levied as a means of buying off the Danes, or of providing a fleet to resist their attacks, was thought by Selden to show the same thing. So also with the fleets collected by Alfred, Edgar, Ethelred, and other English kings to oppose the invasions of the Northmen,—they were believed to have secured and maintained dominion over the sea. Even the beautiful lesson in humility which Cnut desired to convey to his courtiers when, seated in regal pomp on the seashore, he vainly commanded the inflowing tide to stay its course at his behest, was seized on for the same end. “Thou, O sea,” said the great king, “art under my dominion, like the land on which I sit; nor is there any one who dares resist my commands. I therefore enjoin thee not to come up on my land, nor to presume to wet the feet or garments of thy lord.” In these words Selden professed to find clear proof that Cnut claimed the British seas as part of his dominions.
Download or read book The Dominions as Sovereign States written by Arthur Berriedale Keith and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1938 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Rule and Jurisdiction Beyond the Seas written by Sir Henry Jenkyns and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1902 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peeches and Documents on the British Dominions 1918 1931 from Self government to National Sovereignty Edited with an Introduction and Notes by A B Keith written by A B Keith and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Sovereignty written by K. Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two world wars. Chapters follow transnational dynamics and debates over sovereignty in the domains of sexuality, law, politics, culture and religion.
Download or read book The Ideas and Ideals of the British Empire written by Ernest Barker and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1946 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World written by Ken MacMillan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did English notions of sovereignty, empire and law impact their methods of settlement in the Americas?
Download or read book The Company State written by Philip J. Stern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Company-State offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial power. It argues the Company was no mere merchant, but a form of early modern, colonial state and sovereign that laid the foundations for the British Empire in India.
Download or read book Speeches and Documents on the British Dominions 1915 1931 from Self government to National Sovereignty written by Arthur Berriedale Keith and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quest for Security written by Jesse Tumblin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial hierarchy and race fueled rapid militarization in the British Empire that shaped the violent course of the twentieth century. This innovative study reveals the colonial backstory of a century that witnessed total war, resulting in new political norms that enthrone 'national security' as the dominating feature of contemporary politics.
Download or read book The British Dominions as Mandatories written by Herbert Vere Evatt and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Speeches and Documents on the British Dominions 1918 1931 From self government to national sovereignty Edited with an introduction and notes by A B Keith written by Arthur Berriedale Keith and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
