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The West India Royal Commission of 1897 advanced a number of recommendations intended to lift the West Indies out of their depressed condition and to shape their future economic development. This thesis examines the efforts made to implement those recommendations and the extent …

This thesis examines a longstanding object of scholarly inquiry — the degree and nature of Palestine's distinction from other settler colonies — in light of two developing fields. Some historians now examine the social history of Palestine; others, twentieth-century British colo…

Cross-national empirical research consistently suggests that, on average, former British colonies are both more democratic and have more stable democratic transitions. I argue that former British colonies are distinct not because Great Britain was a democracy—so were France and …