%0 Journal Article
%T Imperial Commonwealth, il ¡°grande esperimento¡± del 1917 e la terza fase dell¡¯Impero britannico
%J -
%D 2017
%R DOI Code: 10.1285/i22808949a6n2p275
%X The First World War triggered a process of reform for the British Empire, opening a new phase, that was the third. After a first Atlantic Empire and a second more global and focused on Asia and India, the Great War rebuilt the pivot of the imperial world system founding it on a power block formed by the ¡°white¡± Dominions or, in other words, the relationship between Britain and the main self-governing colonies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. Nevertheless, as in the past, India maintained a key role due to its strategic weight of £¿English barracks in the Oriental seas£¿, as Lord Salisbury remarked in 1882. In this reforming process, 1917 was a fundamental step by laying the foundations for the creation of the British Commonwealth of Nations, or, according to the expression adopted in that year, the Imperial Commonwealth of autonomous nation
%K British Empire
%K Commonwealth of Nations
%K First World War
%K Imperial History
%U http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/eunomia/article/view/18829