This article examines the way a group of colonies on the far reaches of British power – Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and India, dealt with the imperatives of their own security in the early twentieth century. Each of these evolved into Dominion status and then to sovereign statehood (India lastly and most thoroughly) over the first half of the twentieth century, and their sovereignties evolved amidst a number of related and often countervailing problems of self-defence and cooperative security strategy within the British Empire. The article examines how security – the abstracted political goods of military force – worked alongside race in the greater Pacific to build colonial sovereignties before the First World War. Its first section examines the internal-domestic dimension of sovereignty and its need to secure territory through the issue of imperial naval subsidies. A number of colonies paid subsidies to Britain to support the Royal Navy and thus to contribute in financial terms to their strategic de...

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不列颠太平洋的“灰色黎明”：第一次世界大战前夕的种族，安全与殖民主权

本文探讨了英国势力遥远的一群殖民地（澳大利亚，新西兰，加拿大和印度）如何处理20世纪初他们自己的安全问题。在20世纪上半叶，这些国家中的每一个都演变为自治领，然后发展为主权国家（最后一次也是最彻底的印度），其主权在许多相关的，且常常是相互抵消的自卫和合作安全战略问题中发展。大英帝国。本文探讨了安全-一种抽象的军事力量-在第一次世界大战之前如何与大太平洋种族共同建立殖民地主权。它的第一部分探讨了主权的内部国内层面以及通过帝国海军补贴问题确保领土安全的必要性。许多殖民地向英国提供了补贴，以支持皇家海军，从而在财政上为其战略发展做出贡献。