A Geography of the British Empire

The British Empire Exhibition

Geography militant: cultures of exploration and empire

sanitation. New Zealand distinctiveness is too important to the global historiography of colonization for it to be discussed only in the Antipodes. The term "geography militant" was used by Joseph Conrad in 1924 to describe what he saw as the second epoch in the history of geographical knowledge; roughly the age of heroic exploration from James Cook to the scramble for Africa. The first epoch w...

Mines and Minerals of the British Empire

This is a description of the historical, physical and industrial features of the principal centres of mineral productions in the British Dominions beyond the seas, by Mr. R. Stokes, the late Mining Editor of the Rancl Daily Neivs of Johannesburg. It is a brief but comprehensive review of the mineral treasures of the British Empire. It is worthy of notice that the following important minerals ar...

The Costs of Patronage: Evidence from the British Empire∗

I combine newly digitized personnel and public finance data from the British colonial administration 1854-1966 to study how patronage affects the promotion and performance of governors. Governors are more likely to be promoted to higher salaried colonies when connected to their superior during the period of patronage. Once allocated, they provide more tax exemptions, raise less revenue, and inv...

pital) from the MedicalResearchCouncil and the British Empire Cancer

In an attempt to obtain a source of material for chemi cal studies, the binding of 7,1 2-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) was studied in E. coli, B. subtilis, and ascites tumor cells. For the bacteria a dose-dependent binding was found, but the level of binding was low. In the case of the ascites tumor cells in the mouse, binding of DMBA to DNA, RNA, and protein showed a dependence on time afte...