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Great Britain, the Dominions and the Transformation of the British Empire, 19071931

The relations of Great Britain and its Dominions significantly influenced the development of the British Empire in the late 19th and the first third of the 20th century. The mutual attitude to the constitutional issues that Dominion and British leaders have continually discussed at Colonial and Imperial Conferences respectively was one of the main aspects forming the links between the mother country and the autonomous overseas territories. This volume therefore focuses on the key period when the importance of the Dominions not only increased within the Empire itself, but also in the sphere of the international relations, and the Dominions gained the opportunity to influence the forming of the Imperial foreign policy. During the first third of the 20th century, the British Empire gradually transformed into the British Commonwealth of Nations, in which the importance of Dominions excelled. The work is based on the study of unreleased sources from British archives, a large number of published documents and extensive relevant literature.

Jaroslav Valkoun is an assistant professor of general history at the Department of Historical Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Department of Global History, Charles University, Prague.

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Published in Czech as Na cest k Westminsterskmu statutu: Velk Britnie, dominia a promna Britskho impria v letech 19071931
by Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofick fakulta, 2015

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Valkoun, Jaroslav, 1983- author.
Title: Great Britain, the Dominions and the transformation of the BritishEmpire, 1907-1931 : the road to the statute of Westminster / JaroslavValkoun.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge studies inmodern British history | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: LCSH: Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th century. | Commonwealth countries--History--20th century. | Great Britain--History--Edward VII, 1901-1910. | Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936. | Great Britain--Foreign relations--1901-1936.
Classification: LCC DA16 .V35 2021 (print) | LCC DA16 (ebook) | DDC 909/.09712410821--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020049724
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020049725

ISBN: 978-0-367-65447-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-12947-9 (ebk)

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ADM	Admiralty Papers
AP	Amery Papers
APD	Commonwealth of Australia, Parliamentary Debates
BD	British Documents on the Origins of the War
BDEEP	British Documents on the End of Empire
BL	The British Library
BLO	Bodleian Library
BP	Balfour Papers
BT	Board of Trade Papers
CAB	Cabinet Office Papers
CAC	Churchill Archives Centre
CCP	Cecil of Chelwood Papers
CO	Colonial Office Papers
CP	Curtis Papers
CPD	Canada, Parliamentary Debates
CUL	Cambridge University Library
DBFP	Documents on British Foreign Policy
DCER	Documents on Canadian External Relations
D	Dil ireann
DIFP	Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
DO	Dominion Office Papers
FO	Foreign Office Papers
FRUS	Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
HMSO	His Majestys Stationery Office
HoC	House of Commons
HoL	House of Lords
HoR	House of Representatives
HP	Hankey Papers
IPD	Ireland, Parliamentary Debates
LCO	Lord Chancellors Office
PD	United Kingdom, Parliamentary Debates
PREM	Prime Ministers Office Papers
PRO	Public Record Office Papers
SP	Smuts Papers
TNA	The National Archives

The passing of the Statute of Westminster in 1931 is an important milestone in the history of the British Empire. Just as the First World War marks the end of the long 19th century, so 1931 represents a watershed moment for the British Empire. It signifies the end of one era of relations between the mother country and its Dominions, i.e. the de facto white settlements, with a complex Imperial structure beginning the gradual transformation into the Commonwealth, or officially the Commonwealth of Nations. Despite the fact that the statute represented an almost revolutionary transformation in the status of the Dominions, everything ran smoothly without major complications. Many contemporaries held the opinion that the British Commonwealth represented a kind of living organism with a more natural internal ability to adjust to new external and internal factors than other empires bound by rigid rules had.1 The Secretary of State for the Colonies and Dominions of many years, Leopold Stennett Amery, had a similar perspective on the essence of Britains Commonwealth of Nations:

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