Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (69 page)

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British Empire Exhibition (Wembley, 1924)
 
British Petroleum
 
British South Africa Company
 
Brooks, Thomas
 
Brown, Samuel Snead
 
Buccaneers
 
Buchan, John
 
Bulgaria
 
Buller, Charles
 
Buller, Sir Redvers
 
Burke, Edmund
 
Burke, Thomas Henry
 
Burma
 
Burns, J. D.
 
Burns, Robert
 
Burrup, Henry de Wint
 
Butt, Isaac
 
Byng, John
 
 
Cables, undersea
 
Cabot, John
 
Caffery, Jefferson
 
Calvinism
 
Cameron, Sir Donald
 
Cameroon
 
Canada
 
Dominion status of
 
Nova Scotia
 
Quebec
 
Capital flows
 
Capitalism
 
Carey, William
 
Caribbean area
 
mortality in
 
Carlton, Sir Guy
 
Carlyle, Thomas
 
Carolina
 
Casement, Roger
 
Catherine of Braganza
 
Catholicism
 
Cavalry
 
Cavendish, Lord Frederick
 
Central America
 
Ceylon
 
Chalker, Jack
 
Chamberlain, Joseph
 
Chamberlain, Neville
 
Charles I,
 
Charles II,
 
Chiang Kai-shek
 
Childers, Erskine
 
Children
 
Chile
 
China
 
Churchill, Lord Randolph
 
Churchill, Winston
 
and Amritsar massacre
 
and Gallipoli
 
and Hitler’s offer of coexistence
 
and Pearl Harbor attack
 
Cinema
 
Civil wars
 
Clapham Sect
 
Clarkson, Thomas
 
Climate
 
Clive, Robert
 
Clothes
 
Clough, Arthur Hugh
 
Clow, Amos
 
Coal
 
Coffee
 
Coghill, Kendal
 
Coke, Sir Edward
 
Cold War
 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
 
Colonel Blimp
 
Colquhoun, Patrick
 
Columbus, Christopher
 
Combe, George
 
Common-law countries
 
Common Sense
(Paine)
 
Compagnie des Indes Orientales
 
Company of Royal Adventurers into Africa
 
Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies
 
Complete English Tradesman, The
(Defoe)
 
Comte de Rochambeau (French commander)
 
Concentration camps
 
Congress of Berlin (1878)
 
Connecticut
 
Connolly, James
 
Conrad, Joseph
 
Conscription
 
Considerations on Representative Government
(Mill)
 
Consumerism
 
Cook, James
 
Cooper, Robert
 
Cope, Sir Walter
 
Copper
 
Cornwallis (Earl of)
 
Corruption
 
Cotton
 
Credit
 
Cricket
 
Crimean War
 
Criminals/convicts
 
Cripps, Sir Stafford
 
Critical Review
 
Crowe, Eyre
 
Cuba
 
Cudjoe (Captain, Maroon leader)
 
Cumberland (Duke of)
 
Cure of the Diseased in Remote Regions, The
(Wateson)
 
Currencies
 
Curzon, George Nathaniel
 
 
Daily Express
 
Daily Mail
 
Dale, Sir Thomas
 
Dalton, Hugh
 
Dardanelles
 
Darwin, Charles
 
Davies, Sir John
 
De Beers Company
 
Debt.
See also
Great Britain, National Debt
 
Declaration of National Independence
 
Defoe, Daniel
 
de Grasse, François
 
Democracy
 
Democratic Republic of Congo
 
De Pinto, Isaac
 
Deppe, Ludwig
 
Depressions
 
Derby (Lord)
 
Deutsche Bank
 
Devereux, Walter (Earl of Essex)
 
Diamonds
 
Dickens, Charles
 
Dilke, Sir Charles
 
Dillon, John
 
Disease
 
Disraeli, Benjamin
 
Donne, John
 
Doyle, Arthur Conan
 
Drake, Sir Francis
 
Drayton, Michael
 
Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, The
(Lugard)
 
Duché, Jacob
 
Dulles, John Foster
 
Dundas, Henry
 
Dundas, Robert
 
Dunlop, Edward
 
Dunmore (Lord)
 
Dupleix, Joseph François
 
Durham Report
 
Dutch East India Company
 
Dyer, Rex
 
 
East India Act (1813)
 
East India Company
 
army of
 
debt of
 
end of
 
Scots in
 
share price of
 
East Indies
 
Economic growth
 
Economics
 
Eden, Anthony
 
Education
 
exclusive public schools
 
‘Education of Otis Yeere, The’ (Kipling)
 
Edward VII,
 
Egerton, Sir R. G.
 
Egypt.
See also
Suez Canal
 
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
 
Elections
 
Elizabeth I,
 
Elliot, Mary
 
Elyot, Hugh
 
Emigration.
See also
American War of Independence, loyalist emigration after;
under
Great Britain
 
Empire Day
 
Empire Marketing Board
 
English language
 
Enlightenment
 
Equiano, Olaudah
 
Espionage
 
Esquemlin (Dutch writer)
 
Essay on Tea
(Hanway)
 
Eugenics
 
European Economic Community/European Union
 
Evangelicalism
 
Evangelical Magazine
 
Everest, George
 
Everybody’s Business is Nobody’s Business
(Defoe)
 
Expansion of England, The
(Seeley)
 
Eyre, Edward
 
 
Famine
 
Fanning, David
 
Far East
 
Farrer, Sir Thomas
 
Fawcett Commission
 
Federal structure
 
Ferguson, Adam
 
First World War
 
British Expeditionary Force
 
consequences of
 
reparations after
 
Fisher, Andrew
 
Fisher, H. A. L.
 
Fisheries
 
Fitzgerald, Oswald
 
Fitzgerald, Richard
 
Fletcher, Andrew
 
Foreign investments
 
Forster, E. M.
 
Forster, W. E.
 
Fox, Charles James
 
Fox, Luke
 
France
 
and Africa
 
and American War of Independence
 
blockade of
 
colonies of
 
and Versailles peace conference
 
See also
Seven Years War;
under
Great Britain
 
Franklin, Benjamin
 
son William
 
Fraser, Sir Stuart
 
Fraser, William
 
Frobenius, Leo
 
Frobisher, Martin
 
Froude, J. A.
 
 
Gallipoli
 
Galloway, Joseph
 
Galton, Francis
 
Gambia

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