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As of course Scotland is part
of the British Commonwealth I thought it would be informative to include
this publication on the site. I have always said that the Scots played a
large part in the building of the Commonwealth and I think this publication
will reveal this as you read through it.
The first volume take you
through the island and the first Empire to 1763. The book of which this
volume is the first half is an attempt to tell, within moderate compass, the
story of the British Commonwealth, regarded as a single whole; but also as a
part of the greater commonwealth of Western Civilisation. As I have
conceived it, it is the story of a number of peoples gradually learning to
live together in a free partnership inspired by their common enjoyment of
the institutions of political liberty. The second volumes takes you through
the modern Commonwealth from 1763 to 1919 and covers the revolt of the
American colonies, and the misunderstandings which it created; the
organisation, of the British power in India; the adoption of new principles
in colonial policy; the origins, development and consequences of the
Industrial Revolution; the creation of the machinery of democratic
government; the rise of the labour movement; the rapid growth of Irish
nationalism — these are themes (and the list is anything but exhaustive) in
studying which the reader is bound to feel that he is probing to the roots
of the political problems of to-day.
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