The UK has a parliamentary government based on the Westminster system that has been emulated around the world — a legacy of the British Empire. The Parliament of the United Kingdom that meets in the Palace of Westminster has two houses: an elected House of Commons and an appointed House of...
In the Second World War, Britain's colonies in East Asia and Southeast Asia were occupied by the Empire of Japan. Despite the final victory of Britain and its allies, the damage to British prestige and the British economy helped accelerate the decline of the empire. India, Britain's most v...
2、gdom.ItoriginatedwiththeoverseaspossessionsandtradingpostsestablishedbyEnglandbetweenthelate16thandearly18thcenturies.Atitsheight,itwasthelargestempireinhistoryand,foroveracentury,wastheforemostglobalpower.1The Earths countries which have been a part of the British Empire (wikipedia) The existing ov 3、...
Irish emigration to the British empire, 1700-1914 The paper traces the historical roots of anti-mobility discourse in Israel and examines the changing policies and practices geared towards the prevention o... A Bielenberg 被引量: 8发表: 2000年 20th Century Chinese Migration to Italy: The Chinese...
X. The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 by Lawrence Henry Gipson (review) ELLIOT ROSE University ofToronto TheBritish Empire before theAmerican Revolution. X. TheTriumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gatherin the West, 1763-1766.By LAWRENCE HEN•tY GIPSON. NewYork:...
Despite his participation in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, eventually became royal governor of New York (1770-1771), Virginia (17711783), and the Bahama Islands (1787-1796). His life in the British Empire exposed him to an extraordinary range of ...
An incident of 1814 involving the flogging of one of the East India Company's Lascar seamen during his stay in a London boarding-house raised this question in an urgent way. Was the use of a 'customary' punishment by a serang {native officer} acceptable in the metropole, or was this a...
Jenny Sharpe,Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 19. Google Scholar Victoria Haskins, “Devotion I Hope I May Fully Repay: Joan Kingsley-Strack,” in Anna Cole, Victoria Haskins, and Fiona Paisley (eds.),Uncommon ...
Race and Empire Recreation and Consumption Rural and Urban Life States of Mind PERIODS Pre 1770 1770-1815 1816-1850 1851-1885 1886-1914 Post 1914 REGIONS England Ireland Scotland Wales BROWSE BY CONTENT TYPE BooksChaptersArticlesEssays BROWSE BY SOURCE TYPE ...
British Imperialism in SouthEast Asia. 1770–1890 the growth of British and Indian industrial and commercial interest, the establishment of Singapore, the settlement of Anglo-Dutch relations, the expansion of British colonial administration and also "informal empire" in various Malay states... A ...