University of Botswana
History Department
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The British
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Lecturer: Dr B. S. Bennett, email
bennett@mopipi... [Click here
for full email address]
Course outline
Introduction:
- overview and some basic facts
(I) The First British Empire
- Origins
- The Caribbean
- North America
- Sugar, tobacco and the slave trade
- The 18th century struggle with France
- The American Revolution
(II) The Second British Empire
- Overview and introduction (Free Trade, Evangelicalism)
- India – origins to end 19th C.: the East India Company
– from trade to conquest – early 19th C. reformism
– the "Mutiny" – late 19th C. government
- Settlement colonies – Canada – Durham report
– Australia – New Zealand – the Cape
- Mid-Victorian crisis?
- Late Victorian New Imperialism
(III) The 20th century
- The First World War and the Empire
- Effects – Middle East – Africa
- Settlement colonies after the First World War
- India after the First World War (up to independence)
- Africa after the First World War (imperial government, British
settlers, Africans, Afrikaners)
- The Second World War and the end of the Empire
- The Commonwealth after Empire
Some key books (on reserve):
- W. David McIntyre, The Commonwealth of nations : origins
and impact, 1869-1971
- Andrew Porter, (ed.) Oxford History of the British Empire:
The nineteenth century
- Judith M. Brown and W. Roger Louis (eds) Oxford History of
the British Empire: The Twentieth century
- T. O. Lloyd, The British Empire, 1558-1996
- P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British imperialism (2
vols)
- D. K. Fieldhouse, Colonialism
- D. K. Fieldhouse, The Colonial Empires
Books
There is no textbook prescribed for this course.
Click
here for the OPAC list of books currently on reserve at the
University Library for this course.
Other pages:
Other sites:
For resources on the British Empire, see the British Empire
Gateway by Dr Jane Samson, University of Alberta.
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Copyright © 2006 B. S. Bennett
Last updated 15 January 2006