The world's first superpower : the rise of the British Empire from 1497 to 1901
Alternate Title: Rise of the British Empire
Résumé: In this course, London Metropolitan University British and Commonwealty history professor Denis Judd will examine the growth and development of the largest empire in world history--the British Empire--beginning with the late 15th-century Tudor dynasty in England and ending with the death of the Queen-Empress Victoria in 1901.
Contents:
- The Tudor Empire from the discovery of Newfoundland to the Founding of Virginia and the death of Elizabeth I
- Colonies in the New World
- The British in India, c. 1600-1815
- The American Revolution and the Restructured Empire
- Australia and New Zealand: Convicts, settlers, and self-government
- Ireland: Mother country of exploited British colony?
- The Canadian crisis and the spread of internal colonial self-government
- Trade and dominion
- The profits and commerce of empire
- The British Raj, 1815 to 1905: The High Noon of empire in India
- The Suez Canal, Egypt, Sudan, and the Middle East
- The partition of Africa: Opening up the "Dark Continent"
- Empire builders and empire critics
- Conflict and war in South Africa
- Hurrah for the Jubilee! Queen Victoria's 1897 Diamond Jubilee and the meanining of empire.
Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md.
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Language(s): English
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In this course, London Metropolitan University British and Commonwealty history professor Denis Judd will examine the growth and development of the largest empire in world history--the British Empire--beginning with the late 15th-century Tudor dynasty in England and ending with the death of the Queen-Empress Victoria in 1901.
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