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The years of industrialization had developed Great Britain and the economy was strong. The British empire held power over one-fifth of the World’s population at the time and covered almost a quarter of the Earth’s total land area. However, social and economic turmoil would arise in Britain with World War I. During the war, the United Kingdom
The following table gives the population of the British Empire and its territories, in several different time periods. The most populous territory in the empire was British India, which included what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The collapse of the state-empire system and the consequent inevitable reinvention of the sometime core territories constituted the major elite crisis of the second part of the twentieth century; a state-empire system assembled over a couple of centuries was destroyed in a decade or so.
This course on the British Empire analyzes the rise, dominance, and decline of this unprecedented global system of political rule, military activity, and economic and cultural interactions by employing a unique two-pronged approach: 1) using London as a lens through which to think about empire and 2) using the British Empire as a means to think ...
Combining traditional archival research with newer forms of cultural exploration, this is an unusually wide-ranging approach to key aspects of empire. RONALD HYAM is Emeritus Reader in British Imperial History at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and former President of Magdalene College.
The British Empire was the largest in all history, its reach the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of the Second World War, over a fifth of the world's land surface and nearly a quarter of the world's population were under some form of British rule.
5 Ιουν 2020 · The British Empire reached its peak in the mid-1880s in the Age of Victoria (Empress of India) but the two world wars destroyed the Empire: without Britain being defeated in war.
