Pillars of empire
Subtitle: studies & impressions
By: by W. L. & J. E. Courtney; drawings by Clive Gardiner.
Contributors: Courtney, Janet Elizabeth Hogarth, 1865-
Publisher: Jarrolds
Published: 1918
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Statesmen -- Great Britain; Imperialism; Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Politicians and statesmen.  Imperialism and empire.; title: Canada: Lord Dorchester.  Lord Durham.  Sir John Macdonald.  Lord Strathcona.  Sir Wilfrid Laurier.  Sir Robert Borden.; title: South Africa: African explorers.  Sir George Grey.  Sir Bartle Frere.  Cecil John Rhodes.  Alfred Milner and Joseph Chamberlain.  General Louis Botha.  General Smuts.; title: Australasia: Captain James Cook and the early explorers.  Sir Henry Parkes.  Commonwealth premiers.  Seddon and his successors.; title: Egypt and the Soudan: General Gordon.  Lord Cromer.  Lord Kitchener of Khartoum.; title: India and the Far East: Lord Clive.  The heroes of the mutiny.  Lord Curzon.  Rajah Brooke and Stamford Raffles.; title: Books consulted (p. 320-322)