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This set focuses on the influential economic and political commentators who saw weaknesses in the infrastructure of the British Empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Dubbed Idealists of Empire , they saw that the British Empire seemed to have no governing principles, no structure and no guiding ideals. Sir John Seeley's famous quote of 1883 sums up this view: 'we seem to have conquered and... Read more
The Tariff Problem [1903] William James Ashley 220pp, Imperial Fiscal Reform [1903] Vincent Henry Caillard 312pp, Compatriots' Club Lectures [1905] Committee of the Compatriots' Club 338pp, The Path of Empire [1912] Henry Page Croft 134pp, The Empire and the Century [1905] Charles Sydney Goldmann 924pp, The Nation and the Empire [1913] Alfred Milner 568pp
Biography
Ewen Green
