Historians

Question 1

Ronald hyam and decolonisation

Answer 1

Britain where “booed off the field”

Question 2

JA Hobson expansion

Answer 2

“Capitalist plot”- search for new investment by greedy financiers

Boer war fought to secure gold reserves

Question 3

Cain and Hopkins expansion

Answer 3

“Gentlemanly capitalists”

Eg Rothschilds

Question 4

Schumpeter

Answer 4

“Hereditary elites” used empire to justify their role and status in society

Question 5

John newsinger on what influenced imperial policy

Answer 5

Considerable brutality against people who were often virtually defenceless

Question 6

Hobson on attitudes and culture

Answer 6

Masses manipulated into imperial frenzy and became jingoistic

Question 7

Robert Johnson saw the statute of Westminster as an attempt to

Answer 7

“Preserve imperial ties by making timely concessions”

Question 8

Leo Amery conservative politician

Answer 8

Described imperial sentiment in Aus and NZ as “a passion, almost a religion”

Evidence- didn’t adopt statute of Westminster until 40s