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Excerpt from The British Empire: A Short History This book has grown out of a course of lessons given during the winter term of 1916 at Wellington College, Berkshire, and owes its publication to a suggestion in the report of a Com mittee appointed by the Government of Burma in the same year to make recommendations for teaching the Imperial Idea in that province. Though the author hopes his book will be read in Burma, he has not written it Specially for that or any other country. It is intended for class-room use in secondary or continuation schools, as well as for any teachers or general readers who require an introductory history of the British Empire. Fairly advanced students might use the book as a holiday task or for independent reading in term time. The subjects suggested for discussion at the end of each chapter supply suitable oral and written tests of such independent study. History requires some central theme to make it intel ligible or interesting. Books about our Empire written specially for boys of British race have naturally tended to emphasize the daring enterprise and personal achieve ments of their ancestors. This side of the Empire's story can never appeal so strongly to other races, and, as a central theme, it has been intentionally subordinated in this book to two other. Main interests, the growth of political institu tions and the influence of geographical conditions on human life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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