The Britannic Vision Historians and the

Shows the role of historians in making 'Dominion' status, which combined autonomy with unity and provided the peaceful route by which Canada, Australia and New Zealand gained their independence within the British Commmonwealth of Nations, while South Africa, the#xA0;Irish Free State#xA0;and India, also Dominions,#xA0;chose to become republics.

W. DAVID MCINTYRE OBE, is a leading authority on the history of the Commonwealth, and author of over a dozen books, including Colonies into Commonwealth and A Guide to the Contemporary Commonwealth. He has also personally reported on Commonwealth Heads of Government and other Ministerial meetings for twenty years.

Preface	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. xii
List of Illustrations and Sources	p. xv
Historiography	p. 19
Arthur Berriedale Keith	p. 22
Oscar D. Skelton	p. 25
Lionel Curtis	p. 28
Alfred Zimmern	p. 31
H. Duncan Hall	p. 33
Leo Amery	p. 36
Sir Sidney Low	p. 37
Reginald Coupland	p. 38
Kenneth Wheare	p. 39
Keith Hancock	p. 40
Harry Hodson	p. 43
Nicholas Mansergh	p. 45
Patrick Gordon Walker	p. 46
J. Enoch Powell	p. 49
John Coatman	p. 51
Vincent Harlow	p. 53
Margery Perham	p. 57
Historians and Dominions	p. 58
Terminology	p. 63
Britain, British, Britannic, British World	p. 66
British subject	p. 67
Britishness	p. 70
Responsible government	p. 73
Dominions	p. 76
Dominion status	p. 79
Home Rule and Home Rule All Round	p. 81
Commonwealth and Commonwealth of Nations	p. 82
Imperial Conferences	p. 85
The Round Table	p. 87
Organic Union	p. 89
The Raj	p. 90
Imperial Preferences	p. 93
Imperial Defence	p. 95
'Society of Peoples'	p. 96
Chronology	p. 105
Federalism Frustrated	p. 113
Sir Joseph Ward's 'Imperial Parliament of Defence'	p. 113
The Imperial War Conferences	p. 117
A declaration of constitutional right or independence	p. 129
The 1921 Imperial Conference	p. 133
Ambiguous Equality	p. 138
The Irish Free State and external association	p. 139
Dominions' diplomacy	p. 152
The 1926 status formula	p. 160
Optional Sovereignty	p. 175
The inter-departmental committee	p. 176
Conference on the Operation of Dominion Legislation	p. 178
The 1930 Imperial Conference and the Statute of Westminster	p. 185
Equality Delayed - The Dominion of India	p. 194
A Commonwealth of India	p. 197
The great debate on India's future	p. 200
The Lost Dominion	p. 209
Common Allegiance to the Crown	p. 217
Single or multiple kingship	p. 218
External association	p. 222
Republics in the Commonwealth	p. 235
Head of the Commonwealth	p. 252
Freely Associated	p. 258
Imperial defence	p. 260
The Commonwealth at war	p. 270
The Prime Ministers' Meetings	p. 275
Epilogue: Towards the Post-Britannic Commonwealth	p. 288
Notes	p. 311
Bibliography of Sources Cited	p. 344
Index	p. 359
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