BRITISH IMPERIALISM

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BRITISH IMPERIALISM

• NO COUNTRY WAS AFFECT-ED MORE BY IMPERIALISM THAN
  GREAT BRITAIN
• FOR EXAMPLE
• INCREASED STATUS OF
• COLONIAL SECRETARY

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JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN

• FOREIGN SECRETARY NORM-ALLY NEGOTIATED ALLIANCE
  TREATIES... NOT J.C.!!!!!
• CHAMBERLAIN TRIED TO FORGE AN ANGLO-SAXON
  ALLIANCE (GB, GER, USA)
• BASED ON RACISM

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EFFECT ON LITERATURE

• JOSEPH CONRAD NOVELS
• ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
• RUDYARD KIPLING
• WHITE MANS BURDEN
• JUNGLE STORIES"

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BRITISH HEROES

• Charles Chinese Gordon
• Lord Kitchener
• young Winston Churchill
• ENEMY
• Mahdi and the French

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IMPERIAL CONFLICTS

• GOOD EXAMPLE TO FOCUS ON THE SUDAN
• CONFLICT WITH FRENCH
  
  
  
  
  OVER FASHODA
• CONFLICT W/MAHDI AT
  
  
  
  
  KHARTOUM/OMDURMAN

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HIGH PROFILE LEADERS

• Sir Alfred Milner (S. Africa)
• Lord Cromer (Egypt)
• Sir Frederick Lugard (Nigeria)
• Why were these leaders
  
  
  
  
  known by every British
  
  
  
  
  school child?

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Romantic Adventurers

• Look these up
• RICHARD BURTON
• JOHN SPEKE
• SAMUEL BAKER
• H.M. STANLEY
• DAVID LIVINGSTONE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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IMPERIAL POLITICS

• BENJAMIN DISRAELI THE TORIES WERE IMPERIALISTS
• WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE AND THE WHIGS WERE
  ANTI-IMPERIALISTS
• WHAT ABOUT VICTORIA?