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Hace 6 días · The territorial evolution of the British Empire is considered to have begun with the foundation of the English colonial empire in the late 16th century. Since then, many territories around the world have been under the control of the United Kingdom or its predecessor states.
Hace 3 días · Victoria is declared Empress of India, reflecting the expansion of the British Empire and consolidating the rule over India. 1881. First Boer War: The conflict between the British Empire and the Boer states (Transvaal and Orange Free State) in southern Africa. 1887
Hace 4 días · The great waves of expansion in the late nineteenth century in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific left the British with many new territories to administer and with only limited resources with which to construct an administration.
Hace 4 días · Most of the episodes listed here deal with insurgencies and revolts in the various colonies of the British Empire. During its history, the United Kingdom's forces (or forces with a British mandate) have invaded, had some control over or fought conflicts in 171 of the world's 193 countries that are currently UN member states , or nine ...
Hace 4 días · The author continues by documenting the competing Imperial visions of governance within the ever-expanding and changing Imperial bureaucracy of the 19th century. As the book nears its end, Wilson recounts the anti-imperial imaginings that emerged from the late 19th century and into the 20th.
Hace 5 días · Dr Chandrika Kaul, review of News and the British World. The Emergence of an Imperial Press System, (review no. 427) Simon Potter’s book is a study of ‘imperial integration’ through the analysis of what he terms ‘an imperial press system’ which emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (p. 1).
Hace 5 días · Annotation. There are many paintings that represent the British Empire, but The Secret of England’s Greatness (1863) by Thomas Jones Barker is one of the most powerful. It depicts Queen Victoria presenting a bible to a kneeling African chief in the Audience Chamber at Windsor.
