The Fourt Earl of Carnarvon and the South African Confederation
The Fourth Earl of Carnarvon and the South African Confederation

Summary/Abstract: From the first years of the 1850s to 1881 the leaders of the British colonial policy made several attempts to unite the divided subcontinent and organize a loyal self-governing, federal, British dominated South African dominion like Canada, New Zeland or Australia. That conception became the main line of Great Britain's South African colonial policy when the Fourth Earl of Carnarvon was the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1874-1878. This study deals mainly with Lord Carnarvon's South African federal scheme as well as those factors which influenced his colonial cenception about the subcontinent.

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