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27 de may. de 2024 · 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.
- Dominance and Dominions
British Empire - Dominance, Dominions, Expansion: The 19th...
- Gambia River
Gambia River, river in western Africa, 700 miles (1,120 km)...
- Bengal
Bengal, historical region in the northeastern part of the...
- Malacca
Melaka, town and port, Peninsular (West) Malaysia, on the...
- Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean...
- United Provinces
Dutch Republic, (1588–1795), state whose area comprised...
- Malta
Malta, island country located in the central Mediterranean...
- Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope, rocky promontory at the southern end of...
- Dominance and Dominions
28 de may. de 2024 · The British Empire had an enormous impact on world history. The United Kingdom had about 120 colonies throughout its history , the most colonies in the world, the French colonial empire came second, which had about 80 colonies. [2]
22 de may. de 2024 · The history of the breakdown of the Empire has attracted scholars of the histories of the United States ( which broke away in 1776 ), the British Raj (dissolved in 1947), and the African colonies (independent in the 1960s). John Darwin (2013) identifies four imperial goals: colonising, civilising, converting, and commerce. [1]
26 de may. de 2024 · Similarly, although the ‘colonial state’ enjoyed a starring moment in imperial and colonial historiography a couple of decades ago, the British state – while like ideology clearly an essential presence in much writing about British imperialism – has, as Andrew Thompson argues, been surprisingly neglected by historians of ...
12 de may. de 2024 · The museum of british colonialism is a joint uk/kenyan initiative founded to creatively communicate a more truthful account of british colonialism.
Hace 6 días · Covering the history of the various territories under British colonial governance from 1624 to 1870, this includes administrative documentation, trade and shipping records, minutes of council meetings, and details of plantation life, colonial settlement, imperial rivalries across the region, and the growing concern of absentee landlords.
Hace 2 días · Although the level of annual migration of British nationals out of the UK is lower today than what it was during the colonial period, the cumulative effects of migration over time mean than almost 6 million British nationals are living overseas (roughly 10 per cent of the UK’s resident population).
