CONTENTS

MAPS

GENERAL EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

NOTES ON AUTHORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I Claiming a second empire

1 Imperial expansion and its critics

PART II Establishing settler dominance

2 Canada: ‘If they treat the Indians humanely, all will be well’

3 Australasia: one or two ‘honorable cannibals’ in the House?

4 South Africa: better ‘the Hottentot at the hustings’ than ‘the Hottentot in the wilds with his gun on his shoulder’

PART III Entrenching settler control

5 Canada: ‘a vote the same as any other person’

6 Australasia: ‘Australia for the White Man’

7 South Africa: saving the White voters from being ‘utterly swamped’

CONCLUSION

INDEX