From Sea to Sea to the Caribbean Sea: Canadian sub-imperialism in the British West Indies and Commonwealth Caribbean, 1917–2014
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1917, the Privy Council Office of Canada produced a memorandum arguing that London should transfer the British West Indies to Canada as compensation for the Dominion’s efforts in the First World War; Canadian Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, and other officials discussed the Canadian proposal for the next two years at the Imperial War Cabinet and up until the Versailles Conference. This plan never came to fruition. But exploring why the British West Indies remained under London’s tutelage instead of Ottawa’s provides a fascinating case study on how the British Empire evolved into the Commonwealth, how the various Dominions accreted their own international legal personalities in the Inter-War Years, and how all this culminated in the Imperial Crown branching out into a personal union of Crowns. Canadian officials in the 1910s did not appreciate the difference between internal, incorporated territories versus external, overseas territories, and their conceptual misunderstandings of how the British Empire operated outside of North America contributed to Canada’s decision to abandon its own proposal of assuming the administration of the British West Indies. The Constitution Act, 1982 now prevents Canada from taking on overseas territories altogether.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".