Notes

(1) « We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind », John Seeley, The Expansion of England, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1971 (1re éd. 1883), p. 12.

(2) Jean Blewett, Poems, Toronto, McCLellan and Stewart, 1922, p. 105.

(3) André Siegfried, La Démocratie en Nouvelle-Zélande, Paris, A. Colin, 1904, p. 329-331 passim.

(4) The Letters of Queen Victoria, Londres, John Murray, 1908, vol. 3, p. 237.