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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 194 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=11mm, Gew.=290gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 194 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=11mm, Gew.=290gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Thierry: Crown And The Empire 7 problem would have been more difficult half a century later. The war of 1812 created a national spirit in Canada, uniting English, French and even Indians in a common patriotism. " Canada emerged a nation from that war, and her later development has furnished the pattern for the present-day union of imperialism with full local liberty." Mr. C. de Thierry's paper on The Crown and the Empire is not flattering to the British House of Commons. The author's name is not known to us, but we fancy that he must be a South African loyalist of Huguenot descent. The trend of his article is that the House of Commons long usurped the place of the Crown as supreme in the colonies with disastrous results, and that the recent royal tour has shown that it is the Crown which holds the Empire together. " The representatives of Canada, Australia and South Africa will be summoned to the capital by the Sovereign some day, but not to the House of Commons." House of Commons imperialism has been barren, while colonial imperialism is nothing new and is to-day what it was more than a century ago. The first imperialists in the true sense were, Mr. de Thierry thinks, the loyalists who founded English-speaking Canada. They gave up everything for a united empire, and thus brought to England over-sea " an origin so lofty that there never has been any other like it in the history of nations." Some praise might well be spared from the founders of the Republic for the men who made "the Dominion, not the Republic, the expression of the ideal of the Pilgrim Fathers." The Republic refused amnesty and restoration to the loyalists who lost more than, for instance, the conquered Dutch can lose in South Africa; for the latter will retain their property. Canadian imperialism was indeed...<

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Thierry: Crown And The Empire 7 problem would have been more difficult half a century later. The war of 1812 created a national spirit in Canada, uniting English, French and even Indians in a common patriotism. " Canada emerged a nation from that war, and her later development has furnished the pattern for the present-day union of imperialism with full local liberty." Mr. C. de Thierry's paper on The Crown and the Empire is not flattering to the British House of Commons. The author's name is not known to us, but we fancy that he must be a South African loyalist of Huguenot descent. The trend of his article is that the House of Commons long usurped the place of the Crown as supreme in the colonies with disastrous results, and that the recent royal tour has shown that it is the Crown which holds the Empire together. " The representatives of Canada, Australia and South Africa will be summoned to the capital by the Sovereign some day, but not to the House of Commons." House of Commons imperialism has been barren, while colonial imperialism is nothing new and is to-day what it was more than a century ago. The first imperialists in the true sense were, Mr. de Thierry thinks, the loyalists who founded English-speaking Canada. They gave up everything for a united empire, and thus brought to England over-sea " an origin so lofty that there never has been any other like it in the history of nations." Some praise might well be spared from the founders of the Republic for the men who made "the Dominion, not the Republic, the expression of the ideal of the Pilgrim Fathers." The Republic refused amnesty and restoration to the loyalists who lost more than, for instance, the conquered Dutch can lose in South Africa for the latter will retain their property. Canadian imperialism was indeed...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen<