МИНИСТЕРСТВО ПО ДЕЛАМ ВОЙНЫ И КОЛОНИЙ И АДМИНИСТРИРОВАНИЕ БРИТАНСКИХ КОЛОНИАЛЬНЫХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ В КОНЦЕ XVIII – НАЧАЛЕ XIX ВЕКА

Abstract

The main purpose of the article is to analyze the activities of the Ministry of War and Colonial Affairs and the admin-istration of the British colonial territories in the late late XVIII – early XIX centuries. The article examines the pro-cess of creating an effective system of administration of the British Empire in the late XVIII – early XIX centuries. An important part of which was the formation of the Minis-try of War and Colonial Affairs, which actually became the first body of the central administration of the colonies of Great Britain. The end of hostilities in 1815 gave a new impetus to the development of the Ministry of War and Colonial Affairs as the institution which main activity was to consider colonial cases in all their diversity. In this regard, emphasizing the main part of the work of this body, in the post-war period, the Ministry began increasingly to be called simply Colonial.