![]() The first stage, domestic political unification, Australia achieved in 1901-alongside the United States following the Civil War (1865), Japan following the Meiji Restoration (1868), and Germany following the Franco-Prussian War (1871). ![]() In developing an independent imperialism, Australia partook in the same stages of imperial development as Germany, Japan, and the United States during the analogous period. ![]() The Commonwealth Crisis of 1905–1908 would end with the firm rejection of Australian imperial policy as merely a sub-imperialism of Britain. 1 Prime Minister Alfred Deakin’s invitation to President Theodore Roosevelt for a visit of America’s Great White Fleet in 1908 was an utter denunciation of the prevailing British order in the Pacific. Deakin’s hospitable message was in the inmost sense an invitation to the people of America to admit the common trust of the two white races whose destinies are bound up in Pacific Dominance,” stated Age in March 1908.
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