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Machine generated contents note: ch. One Discovery -- ch. Two Before Colonisation -- ch. Three Settlement -- ch. Four Governance -- ch. Five Problems Foreshadowed -- ch. Six Anguilla -- ch. Seven Bermuda -- ch. Eight British Antarctic Territory -- ch. Nine British Indian Ocean Territory -- ch. Ten Cayman Islands -- ch. Eleven Falkland Islands -- ch. Twelve Gibraltar -- ch. Thirteen Montserrat -- ch. Fourteen Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, Oeno Islands -- ch. Fifteen South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands -- ch. Sixteen St. Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha -- ch. Seventeen Turks & Caicos Islands -- ch. Eighteen Virgin Islands.

Introduction:The eighteenth century and the Middle Ages --The Norman Yoke : feudal law --The Norman Yoke : canon law --Daniel Leonard and the modern British Empire --Is there a British Empire? --Imperial origins : Wales, Ireland, and America --Empire by consent --Conclusion.

"Important government publications in 1949 relating to colonial affairs": p. 52-53. ; At head of title: British Information Services, an agency of the British Government, Reference Division, I.D. 963, January, 1950. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization that created deep and persistent tensions within the empire during the colonial era and that the failure to resolve it was the principal element in the decision of thirteen continental colonies to secede from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution and the empire as whole having an uncodified working customary constitution that determined the way authority was distributed within the empire. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution"--