First course -- Tendency in English history -- England in the eighteenth century -- The empire -- The old colonial system -- Effect of the new world on the old -- Commerce and war -- Phases of expansion -- Schism in Greater Britain -- Second course --
History and politics -- The Indian empire -- How we conquered India -- How we govern India -- Mutual influence of England and India -- Phases in the conquest of India -- Internal and external dangers -- Recapitulation.
"Consists of two sets of lectures which were originally delivered to Cambridge undergraduates in the autumn of 1881 and the spring of 1882." Bibliography: p. xxvi-xxvii.
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