The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

* The Rise and Fall of the British Empire ☆ PDF Read by * The Great Courses eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire And it will also give you a comprehensive overview you wont find offered anywhere else - a context into which you can integrate new knowledge about this country, as well as understand the background of current events in so many other countries that were once part of Britains empire, from Ireland to China, and in Africa and the Caribbean. What were the forces that thrust the British Empire to its extraordinary position of greatness and then just as powerfully drove it into decline? And why is n

Author	:	The Great Courses
Rating	:	4.94 (799 Votes)
Asin	:	B00DTO5VA8
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Number of Pages	:	465 Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-07-27
Language	:	English

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And it will also give you a comprehensive overview you won't find offered anywhere else - a context into which you can integrate new knowledge about this country, as well as understand the background of current events in so many other countries that were once part of Britain's empire, from Ireland to China, and in Africa and the Caribbean. What were the forces that thrust the British Empire to its extraordinary position of greatness and then just as powerfully drove it into decline? And why is nearly every nation on earth, in one way or another, the consequence of the British Empire? In these 36 lectures, Professor Allitt leads you through four centuries of British power, innovation, influence, and, ultimately, diminishment - four profound centuries that literally remade the world and bequeathed the complex global legacy that continues to

Amazon Customer said Great Professor and subject. Great quality and prompt delivery. Very prompt delivery. Excellent condition and excellent teacher and course. My husband enjoyed listening to professor Allit so very much .. “What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa?" Kristi Richardson “What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does anyone suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?” William Wilberforce1 The Sun Never Set2 The Challenge to Spain in the New W. A massive info dump, but not thematically organized, and mostly chronological, so a bit of a slog There's something extraordinary about the British Empire. If you look at a world map, and visit England, you can't help but wonder how such a tiny nation with such seemingly gentle people built an empire where the sun never set. Even now, there's an argument to be made that the sun still has not set on all British territories.The Rise and Fall of the B