| Title | : | Imperial Britain: 1837-1914 (British History) |
| Author | : | Sandra Butler |
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Yet much is still unknown about the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial britain. This book engages with current work exploring the importance of slavery and slave-ownership in the re-making of the british imperial world after abolition in 1833.
The primary motive of british imperialism in china in the nineteenth century was economic. There was a high demand for chinese tea, silk and porcelain in the british market. However, britain did not possess sufficient silver to trade with the qing empire. Thus, a system of barter based on indian opium was created to bridge this problem of payment.
The years 1815 to 1914 are referred to as britain's imperial century, and at this time, the empire included over 14 million square miles of territory and 450 million.
Throughout the remainder of the book, dirks continues to explore the trial as an example of how events in india were used to further imperial expansion, changed the debate surrounding why the british were in india and how these debates created a modern british identity based on the existence of empire.
6 jan 2021 queen victoria's reign saw britain dominate the world stage, aided by the comparative weakness of other imperial european powers.
Fashioned out of a collective commonwealth-comes-to-britain experience, london calypso was always more that just a saturday night feelgood soundtrack. Lloyd bradley explores how the genre embraced social commentary, biting satire and a stock-in-trade bawdiness.
Britain’s imperial project in india, its aims and methods, was not to prevent ‘famines’ but to engineer them. ‘malaya’: during the so-called ‘malayan emergency’ of 1948-1960 the british introduced a ‘food denial’ programmed called operation starvation.
The period between 1880 and 1913 in the history of britain was known as new imperialism. During this period, the territory of the british empire increased by about four million square miles due to the colonial expansion. 1 the british colonies became expanded from egypt and sudan to southern africa, and from india to burma and other territories of southeastern asia.
Dominant at last among europe's great powers, britain was firmly established by 1815 with france, russia, ottoman turkey and china as one of the world's great imperial powers.
The british government was strongly opposed to its construction. In 1956, the suez canal was at the center of a brief war between egypt and the combined forces of britain, france and israel.
Media and culture are mainstays in the imagination of any governing imperial force: in the case of imperial britain, propaganda worked as a megaphone by which the parliament in place was able to communicate and shape the narrative(s) of their colonial agenda abroad.
The big myth of the british empire is that it nobly withdrew from its colonies when it realized the days of imperialism were over. Yet one look at cyprus proves the myth to be just a feel-good fairy tale. Between 1955 and 1959, the british responded to a cyrpus rebel bombing campaign by rounding up and torturing 3,000 ordinary cypriots.
Eighteenth century british historians have been waiting for a textbook like this for a long time.
British empire, a worldwide system of dependencies—colonies, protectorates, and other territories—that over a span of some three centuries was brought under the sovereignty of the crown of great britain and the administration of the british government.
The british empire, like every empire in history, was created to enrich the imperial mother country, not to realise some vague civilising mission.
Ethnicity and nationalism in post-imperial britain - august 1991 skip to main content accessibility help we use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites.
Relentless attacks on british and allied shipping meant that britain had to be self-sufficient. People were encouraged to recycle animal bones for their multiple uses, such as glue and fertilizer. The czech artist dorrit dekk, moved to london from austria after the 1938 anschluss and designed many posters, including some for london transport.
By david dabydeen, john gilmore and cecily jones (oxford: oxford university press, 2007) goulbourne, harry, ethnicity and nationalism in post-imperial britain (cambridge: cambridge university press, 2009) goulbourne, harry, race relations in britain since 1945 (basingstoke: macmillan, 1998).
This is perhaps the most famous poster from the first world war, and shows field marshal lord kitchener, appealing for people to join the british army. It was first produced in 1914, but has taken on a more iconic status since the war, when it was not widely circulated outside of the london area.
The imperial federation refers to a series of proposals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to create a federal union to replace the existing british empire. No such proposal was ever adopted, but various schemes were popular in australia, canada, new zealand, and other colonial territories.
After the defeat of france in the napoleonic wars (1803–1815), britain emerged as the principal naval and imperial power of the 19th century, and expanded its imperial holdings. The period of relative peace (1815–1914) during which the british empire became the global hegemon was later described as pax britannica (british peace).
(andrew stuart), 1968-publication date 2000 topics imperialism, imperialism.
Focusing on everyday life in nineteenth-century britain and its imperial possessions”from preparing tea to cleaning the kitchen, from packing for imperial adventures to arranging home décor”the essays in this collection share a common focus on materiality, the nitty-gritty elements that helped give shape and meaning to british self-definition during the period.
Termed 'britain's imperial century'—the empire covered approximately one-quarter of the world's land surface and governed around one-fifth of its population. It is not surprising, therefore, that news and discussion about and from britain's sprawling empire was an ever-present feature in much of the newspaper press.
This new imperialist age gained its impetus from economic, military, political, a lifeline to india, which britain had made part of the british empire in 1858.
5 the british empire and the great war, 1914–1918; 6 ireland and the empire-commonwealth, 1900–1948; 7 migrants and settlers; 8 critics of empire in britain; 9 the popular culture of empire in britain; 10 colonial rule; 11 bureaucracy and ‘trusteeship’ in the colonial empire; 12 ‘deceptive might’: imperial defence and security, 1900.
Bradley’s ‘tacitus’ agricola and the conquest of britain’ adroitly explores the many, sometimes contradictory, uses made of this most ambiguous of imperial texts by british scholars, educators, politicians and popular writers during the empire’s heyday. It is a lively, enlightening and wide-ranging endeavour which, like many other.
In imperial units units of measurement of the british imperial system, the traditional system of weights and measures used officially in great britain from 1824 until the adoption of the metric system beginning in 1965. The united states customary system of weights and measures is derived from the british imperial system.
Easily dominating the backward chinese forces, the british expeditionary force blockaded chinese ports, occupied shanghai, and took complete control of canton. The 1842 treaty of nanking granted britain extensive trading and commercial rights in china, marking the first in a series of unequal treaties between china and european imperial powers.
While the 1920s may have been the moment in which britain’s empire was at its zenith, the british empire exhibition of 1924 emerged at a time of imperial unease. The anglo-irish treaty was signed in 1921, which led to the formation of the irish free state as a nation independent from the united kingdom.
This pioneering collection of essays charts an exciting new field in british studies, 'the new imperial history'. Leading scholars from history, literature and cultural studies tackle problems of identity, modernity and difference in eighteenth-century britain and the empire.
I accepted the modern british nation-state as the proper framework for my studies without really appreciating either the racialized privilege attached to its political subjects or the imperial content of its popular culture.
This book examines british imperial attitudes towards china during their early encounters from 1792 to 1840. It makes the first attempt to bring together the political history of sino-western relations and cultural studies of british representations of china, as a new way of understanding the origins of the opium war – a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between.
The british government watched the east india company, who ruled india. The company had an army, led by british officers and staffed by indian soldiers. Britain did not have the amount of people to use direct control over all of their colonies, especially africa.
India was to assume a new importance to britain, economically, strategically, and militarily. After the loss of the 13 american colonies at the end of the 18th century, india was to fix its place in the british imperial imagination in a way that it hadn’t done before.
Thornton considers the implications of the boer war for the imperial idea in britain in the imperial idea and its enemies: a study in british.
We ask for british justice workers and racial difference in late imperial britain by tabili, laura.
The great theft of india by imperial britain — part 1 but back in 1770, the british were focused on making money.
British privateers experienced as much success preying on enemy merchant ships as almost any of their opponents. Rose to the same level as trade with the colonies by 1785, and by 1792 trade between britain and europe had doubled.
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The era 1870–1914 witnessed a significant reconfiguration of the ways in which both britain regarded its overseas possessions and the way those same.
Further scotti (irish) raids took place on the south coast of britain in 404/405, just as a major force of imperial troops was being withdrawn. The british provinces were relatively isolated and lacking in support from rome in their fight against barbarian incursions.
Britain's imperial century, 1815-1914: a study of empire and expansion administration american army attempt australia became become believed britain british.
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Commercial vigour of late victorian britain and the continued assert- iveness of british world power was a welcome corrective to exaggerated rumours of imperial.
Whereas only a few years before britain would have been able to cow a country like egypt with ease, it now had to slink out of the suez canal zone, humiliated and widely reviled. Professor denis judd is the author of empire: the british imperial experience from 1765 to the present (ib tauris, 2011).
Part 5 imperial britain - personnel and ideas: the imperial elite and gentry resurgence-- the church militant, race and law-- racial hierarchy and benevolence-- agrarian patriotism and freehold. Part 6 the world crisis, 1780-1820: ideologies and ethnicities-- liberty, equality, fraternity-- christian revivalism and the wreck of nations.
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