Colony

Définition et enjeux

Charles Prestwood Lucas,  Introduction to a historical geography of the British colonies… (1887-1890)

“ Many instances might be given, such as the ancient Greek colonies, the earliest of the Puritan settlements in America, and others. But it is worth while to point out that in any case there must be some association of persons to make a colony; and that, when companies have been deliberately formed to promote a scheme of colonisation, they have generally, if not always, been to some extent protected and privileged by the state. ”
Source : Gallica

Charles Prestwood Lucas,  Introduction to a historical geography of the British colonies… (1887-1890)

“ Ceylon may be given as a sample of the first class, Barbados of the second, and Canada of the third. The Crown colony proper is under the benevolent despotism of the Colonial Office. The colony enjoying Responsible Government is practically independent, for the veto of the Crown on legislation is very rarely put into force. Between these two extremes are colonies in various stages of local autonomy; the tendency being to modify the strict Crown colony government by the gift of some kind of representative institutions as lately in the cases of Jamaica and Mauritius. ”
Source : Gallica

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