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THE BRITISH EMPIRE
The largest formal empire in history
Beginnings
17 th Cent.
1600
Formation of the East India Company.
Set up: Network of trading posts
Sale of goods: spices, silks and
cotton to European customers.
Importation of tea to Britain which
became a popular beverage.
1664
British control of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, renaming the settlement New York.
1668
English East India Company takes over Bombay.
The ‘empire on which the sun never set’
Peak: Victorian Period
It controlled ¼ of the world’s land area rulingover
400 million people.
18th Cent.
1775
Beginning of the American Independence War until 1783.
1783
Britain
Forced recognition of the independence of 13 colonies.
Retained imperial control in the West Indies and Canada.
19th Cent.
India
1857
The East India Company disbanded.
Rebellion: The Indian Mutinity
The British government took direct
control of India.
"The Jewel in the Crown"
1876
Queen Victoria of Britain was proclaimed
‘Empress of India’.
Official monarch of
India.
1877
British Influence on India
Form of railways
Enabling fast travel of
goods and people.
Indians had no influence in the
central & local government
DISCONTENT
The Indian National Congress
political party
Formed by some
middle-class Indians
Object: argue for government
reforms and independence
from Britain.
Africa
Late 1880s
Competition for the
expansion to Africa
1881-1919
“The Scramble for Africa”
Britain & other
European powers.
1884/5
Berlin
Conference
Decide who would control the
parts of Africa
Africa was divided
between the competing
European powers.
No African presence
British Control
Nigeria
The Gold Coast
Rhodesia
South Africa
Egypt
British Beliefs
Africa: resource rich area for selling goods.
Duty
to ‘uplift’ and
‘improve’ Africa.
to bring ‘civilisation’ to
Africa in the form of
Christianity.
1899-1902
The Second Boer War
The British conquered South Africa.
Egypt
1882
Britain was the acknowledged ruling force in Egypt
1899 and so
on
Britain ruled Sudan.
Australia
‘terra nullis’
no one’s
land
Displacement of Aboriginal people
to set-up new British
societies
Change on the administration
system
The Colonial
Office
Began in 1801
It was an appendage of the Home Office
and the Board of Trade
1850s
it was a separate department with a growing staff and a
continuing policy
It exerted discipline & pressure on the colonial governments.
Attitudes of Empire
Its way of living was the right way.
Colonization would help the countries become like
Britain and improve.
Colonization gained their global influence.
Local leaders were removed anytime by British soldiers.
It helped the colonised countries by opening up trade markets.
Extreme poverty and conflict in many countries ruled by Britain.
Nationalism and the commonweatlh
It developed rapidly after World War I and II
1947
India
Claimed its independence
Retained an association with Great Britain and other former dependencies in
the Commonwealth of Nations.
After
1960
British people were no longer actively imperial in
its sentiments
Accepted the idea of independence as a foregone
conclusion.
Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997.
Decline
Following the end of World War
Two in 1945
Causes
It drained Britain financially.
It lowered its prestige in the eyes of its
colonies.
Independence
movements
expressed dissatisfaction with
British rule.
Results
Britain granted independence to many of its major colonies
Its legacy remains in the contemporary world.
Spread of the
English
Language
Technology
People
Ideas
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