Book contents
- The Quest for Security
- The Quest for Security
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Colonial Federationism, Security, and the South African War
- 2 Lessons of South Africa: Security and Political Culture in the British World, 1902–1906
- 3 Security, Race, and Dominion Status, 1907–1909
- 4 The Collapse of Consensus and Control, 1910–1914
- 5 Race, Conscription, and the Meaning of Sovereignty in War
- 6 The Sharp Sickle: New Realities of Sovereignty in the British Empire, 1918–1926
- Epilogue: The Statute of Westminster – A Once and Future Sovereignty
- Select Bibliography
- Index
4 - The Collapse of Consensus and Control, 1910–1914
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2019
Book contents
- The Quest for Security
- The Quest for Security
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Colonial Federationism, Security, and the South African War
- 2 Lessons of South Africa: Security and Political Culture in the British World, 1902–1906
- 3 Security, Race, and Dominion Status, 1907–1909
- 4 The Collapse of Consensus and Control, 1910–1914
- 5 Race, Conscription, and the Meaning of Sovereignty in War
- 6 The Sharp Sickle: New Realities of Sovereignty in the British Empire, 1918–1926
- Epilogue: The Statute of Westminster – A Once and Future Sovereignty
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores how these efforts at resolving the empire’s crisis began to fail and produce unintended consequences. It traces the breakdown of cooperation on naval strategy and shipbuilding among colonial governments, especially that of Wilfrid Laurier’s and Robert Borden’s naval bills in Canada. It shows that the deep involvement of colonists in the forthcoming world war was not a certain proposition between 1910 and 1914, and that the empire’s security crisis threatened to derail colonial state-building projects in India and South Africa.
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- The Quest for SecuritySovereignty, Race, and the Defense of the British Empire, 1898–1931, pp. 150 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019