British Empire, the

The idea of self-determination was not unknown when Wilson introduced it in 1914. Therefore, a chronological account must start earlier. Self-determination was clearly present already in the American as well as the French revolution that showed that people sought independence and freedom from heteronomy. These are possibly the two most prominent examples of self-determination from a European perspective. They exemplify the two dimensimis of self-determination that we today call external and internal self-determinatiOTi. The Americans fought for their independence from a state—the British Empire. The French people fought for more self-determination and changes within the system. The labels internal and external were introduced much later, but the American Revolution is an example of... 

A 23-ton fly A heel in the Palace oi Engineering at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition. (Corbis Corporation)... 

Outside of the United States and Canada, storage water heaters are common in Australia, Southern Africa, Latin America, and Britain. Instantaneous water heaters are much more common particularly in Asia and Europe. In countries that were once part of the British Empire, unpressurized storage tanks that relied on gravity were common, however most have changed over to pressurized storage tanks. 

Mr. Diehn knew East Asia he took over that part of the world. Mr. Ruperti treated the overseas business he had South and Central America and the British Empire Dr. Gattineau took care of the Scandinavian countries and I concerned myself with the United States and France because I had traveled much in the United States until 1932.. . . Goebbels lost interest in us. He called us a clique of capitalists that only criticized. 

I was A very worried man after the invasion of Prague in March 1939.. .. In view of the intensive military preparations, shortly even after the Anschluss in 1938, I.G. took measures to protect its foreign assets in France and the British Empire. 

Avner Offer, The British Empire, 1870-1914 a waste of money . Economic History Review, 46 (1993), 215-38, at 224-5 John M. Hobson, The military-extraction gap and the wary titan the fiscal-sociology of British defence policy 1870-1913 , Journal of European Economic History, 22 (1993), 461-506, at 479 John M. Hobson, The Wealth of States A Comparative Sociology of International Economic and Political Change (Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 67-8, 171, 202. 

War Office, Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War 1914-20 (London HMSO, 1922), pp.30-7. 

See Anthony Clayton, The British Empire as Superpower, 1919-39 (Basingstoke Macmillan, 1986) Keith Jeffrey, The British Army and the Crisis of Empire 1918-22... 

W. Roger Louis, The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951 (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1984), pp.9-10, 720-3, 731 David R. Devereux, The Formulation of British Defence Policy towards the Middle East, 1948-56 (Basingstoke Macmillan, 1990), pp. 41, 68-99, 121 1. 

Babij, Orest, The Royal Navy and the defence of the British Empire, 1928-1934 , in Kennedy and Neilson (eds.). Par Flung Lines (1997), pp. 124—70. 

Clayton, Anthony, The British Empire as a Superpower 1919-39, Basingstoke Macmillan, 1986. 

Louis, W. Roger, The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1984. 

The British Empire, 1870-1914 a waste of money . Economic History Review, 46 (1993), 215-38. 

Other places where ores are known to occur are Greenland, Bavaria, Finland, Miask in the Ural Mountains, Chanteloube near Limoges in France, California, and Colorado. For recent observations of their occurrence in the British Empire see the references cited.7... 

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