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- Publishing Information
- Preface
- Contributors
- maps
- Map: Roman Britain
- Map: Anglo-Saxon England
- Map: early Scotland
- Map: Wales in the 13th century
- Map: the Angevin empire
- Map: English and Welsh dioceses, 1543
- Map: the English civil war
- Map: British and Irish counties
- Map: urban development
- Map: Europe in the First World War
- Map: the retreat from Empire
- Map: German hegemony in the Second World War
- Genealogy: Saxons, Danes, Normans
- Genealogy: Glyndwr's
- Genealogy: Lancaster and York
- Genealogy: Tudor and Stuart
- Genealogy: Stuart and Hanoverian
- Genealogy: Victoria and her descendants
Solomon Islands
- Source:
- The Oxford Companion to British History
- Author(s):
J. A. Cannon
Solomon Islands.
The Solomon Islands are in the South Pacific, east of New Guinea, and export copra and coconuts. In 1886 Germany and Britain agreed to spheres of influence but the German sphere, including Bougainville, was later administered by Australia. During the Second World War there was extremely heavy fighting, particularly on Guadalcanal, where Japanese and Americans struggled for control of an important airfield. They form an independent state under the British crown, with a Governor-general.
J. A. Cannon
- Publishing Information
- Preface
- Contributors
- maps
- Map: Roman Britain
- Map: Anglo-Saxon England
- Map: early Scotland
- Map: Wales in the 13th century
- Map: the Angevin empire
- Map: English and Welsh dioceses, 1543
- Map: the English civil war
- Map: British and Irish counties
- Map: urban development
- Map: Europe in the First World War
- Map: the retreat from Empire
- Map: German hegemony in the Second World War
- Genealogy: Saxons, Danes, Normans
- Genealogy: Glyndwr's
- Genealogy: Lancaster and York
- Genealogy: Tudor and Stuart
- Genealogy: Stuart and Hanoverian
- Genealogy: Victoria and her descendants
