Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (68 page)

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INDEX
 
 
Abdul Karim (‘Munshi’)
 
Abyssinia
 
Acheson, Dean
 
Adams, John
 
Adams, Samuel
 
Advertisements
 
Afghanistan
 
Taliban regime in
 
Africa
 
Battle of Shangani River (1893)
 
British Empire and European colonies in
 
colonial service in
 
exploration of
 
and First World War
 
Partnership for Africa
 
‘Scramble for Africa’
 
West Africa
 
See also
Germany, African colonies; Slavery;
under
France;
individual countries
 
Agency problem
 
Agriculture.
See also
Plantations
 
Ahmed Shah Abdali
 
Alcohol
 
Algeria
 
Allahabad, Treaty of
 
Allenby, Edmund
 
‘Amazing Grace’ (song)
 
American colonies
 
and Boston Tea Party
 
Continental Congresses
 
Declaration of Independence
 
population growth in
 
See also
American War of Independence; New England; Taxation, in American colonies
 
American Indians
 
numbers/massacres of
 
American War of Independence
 
British military successes in
 
as civil war
 
first exchange of fire
 
loyalist emigration after
 
loyalists in
 
Yorktown battle
 
Amery, Leo
 
Amherst (Lord)
 
Amritsar massacre (1919)
 
Amsterdam.
See also
Holland
 
Anglican Church Missionary Society
 
Anglo-American Telegraph Company
 
Anglo-Dutch merger
 
Animals
 
Anson, George
 
Antarctica
 
Anti-imperialism.
See also
United States, as anti-imperialist
 
Anti-Semitism
 
Arabi Pasha
 
Arabs
 
Archdale, John
 
Architecture
 
Argentina
 
Arnold, Matthew
 
Artillery
 
Asia
 
Asquith, Herbert
 
Atlantic Charter
 
Atrocities.
See also
Amritsar massacre; India, Indian Mutiny of 1857; India, White Mutiny; Nanking, Rape of
 
Attlee, Clement
 
Auden, W. H.
 
Australia
 
Aborigines in
 
paradox of Australian history
 
and Versailles peace conference
 
Austria
 
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
(Chaudhuri)
 
 
Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth
 
Bahadur Shah Zafar
 
Baines, Thomas
 
Baker, Herbert
 
Balcarres (Lord)
 
Balfour, Arthur
 
Balfour Report on Imperial Relations
 
Balkans
 
Balliol (college)
 
Baltimore (Lord)
 
Banks
 
Banks, Joseph
 
Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen
 
Barbados
 
Bargash (Sultan of Zanzibar)
 
Baring, Sir Evelyn
 
Barker, Lady Mary Anne
 
Barlow, Sir George
 
Batoka plateau
 
Battle of Britain
 
Bedingfeld, Norman
 
Belgian Congo
 
Belgium
 
Bentinck, William
 
Berlin Conference (1884 – 1885)
 
Bertie, Francis
 
Besant, Annie
 
Bevin, Ernest
 
Birth rates
 
Bismarck, Otto von
 
Black and Tans
 
Black Sea Straits
 
Blair, Tony
 
Bleak House
(Dickens)
 
Bloemfontein
 
Boer War
 
Bogle, George
 
Bogle, Paul
 
Book of Common Prayer
 
Booth, Charles O’Hara
 
Bose, Janakinath
 
Bose, Subhas Chandra
 
Boswell, James
 
Botha, Louis
 
Bowater, Joseph
 
Boycotts
 
Boy Scout movement
 
Boys’ Own Paper
and
Boys of the Empire
 
Brailsford, Henry Noel
 
Branson, James
 
Brazil
 
Brett, Reginald
 
Bright, Charles
 
‘Britannia Pacifatrix’ (mural)
 
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery society
 
British Commonwealth of Nations
 
after Second World War
 
British Empire
 
in Africa
 
and Bank of England
 
beginning of
 
British immigrants in
 
colonial troops in First World War
 
decline/doubts concerning.
See also
Anti-imperialism
 
defence costs
 
and First World War
 
as Greater Britain
 
and Hitler
 
informal empire
 
investments in
 
legacy of
 
military campaigns in
 
and responsible government system
 
and Second World War
 
and slavery
 
as source of entertainment
 
and Versailles peace conference

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