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23 de may. de 2006 · Product Description. This series offers an engaging portrait of the Queen who ruled over one-fifth of the world's population for 64 years, as well as influential figures who shaped British imperialism: Gladstone, Disraeli, Livingstone, Rhodes, and Prince Albert. Personal accounts, re-enactments, and cinematography from imperial outposts recount ...
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2001. S1.E2. Passage to India. A British commercial venture, The East India Company, controls a large part of the Indian continent. Initially a trading venture, it encroached into India's social life, ultimately leading to political and military conflict. Britain becomes embroiled in a war in Crimea, and, in India, mutiny against British rule ...
In chapters devoted to periodical publishing in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Southern Africa, and the 'outposts' of the Empire (Ceylon, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malaya and Singapore, Malta, and the West Indies), the contributors also consider the function and importance of periodicals in colonial life.
Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria is associated with Britain's great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and, especially, empire. At her death, it was said, Britain had a worldwide empire on which the sun never set. Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, London, on 24 May 1819. She was the only daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, the ...
6 de ene. de 2021 · When Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the British Empire was a loose assortment of colonies mostly accrued for reasons of trade. By the time of her death nearly 64 years later, the Empire had expanded to become a coherent and dominant show of economic and political strength. As head of state, Queen Victoria had presided over nearly a ...
14 de feb. de 2021 · Seven attempts were made on Victoria's life, between 1840 and 1882 - her courageous attitude towards these attacks greatly strengthened her popularity. With time, the private urgings of her family and the flattering attention of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880, the Queen gradually resumed her public duties.
Hace 23 horas · Queen Victoria's Empire. History of a Reign. Engines of Change; Passage to India; The Moral Crusade; The Scramble for Africa. Her Majesty. Queen Victoria; Her Children; Her Homes. The Changing Empire.
