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 | | British Empire Colonies in Africa | | by balisunset, Sep 2, 2008 | | Britain’s original holdings in Africa were acquired to support the slave trade. The Royal African Company was founded in 1672 to exploit the West African slave trade on a more systematic basis than had the buccaneers of the previous century. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | The Imperial Governance of British Empire | | by balisunset, Sep 2, 2008 | | Historians of the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the age of self conscious, programmatic imperialism, have also tended to divide the empire into two, in this case the dependent or autocratically ruled Colonial Office empire on the one hand, and the self-governing dominions or Commonwealth on the other. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | British Empire Colonial Wars | | by balisunset, Sep 2, 2008 | | Wars in India customarily reflected, and at points anticipated, those in Europe. Between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the consequent wars with Louis XIV’s France and the end of the Napoleonic Wars over a century later in 1815, Britain and France were at war almost every other decade, and these wars provided both the motivation and the opportunity for imperial expansion in India and elsewhere. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | The Legacy of British Imperialism | | by balisunset, Sep 2, 2008 | | Explanations of the extent and influence of the British Empire have run the gamut from celebrations of the maritime genius of the British people, of the farsightedness of English statesman, and of the adaptability of the British constitution, to denunciations of the imperialist and irresistible character of capitalism. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | Rome | | by larcha, Aug 31, 2008 | | Rome grew into a powerful empire. | | Comments(2) Liked It: 5 |
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 | | The Balfour Declaration | | by Ebey Soman, Jul 28, 2008 | | In the middle of World War I, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote on behalf of the British Government the words that would one day fulfill the dreams and hopes of millions of Jews around the world. | | Comments(2) Liked It: 8 |
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