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Ruskin, John
Russia.
See also
Soviet Union
See also
Soviet Union
Rwanda
St Leger, Sir Warham
Salisbury (Lord)
Sanders, Otto Liman von
Santo Tomé
Sati
Science
Scotland
emigrants from
Scot convicts sent to Australia
Scott, Paul
Scurvy
Seabright, Kenneth
Sechele (Bakwena chief)
Second World War
treatment of British PoWs in
Seeley, John Robert
Seir Mutaqherin, or Review of Modern Times
(Hossein Khan)
(Hossein Khan)
Sepoys.
See also
India, Indian Mutiny of 1857
See also
India, Indian Mutiny of 1857
Serbia
Seven Years War
Sex
Sharp, Granville
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheep
Sheridan, Richard
Sherwood, Manuella
Ships
Dreadnoughts
journey time between Asia and Europe
journey time between England and Australia
slave ships
steamships
Sierra Leone
Silk
Silver
Sind
Singapore
Singh, Kartar
Siraj-ud-Daula
Skinner, James
Slavery
abolition of
mortality rates
sexual exploitation of slaves
slave rebellions
Sleeman, William
Smith, Adam
Smith, Francis
Smith, John
Smith, Robert
Social Darwinism
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Sorabji, Cornelia
South Africa.
See also
Boer War
See also
Boer War
South America
South Sea Company
Soviet Union.
See also
Cold War; Russia
See also
Cold War; Russia
Spain/Spanish empire
Spencer, Edmund
Spices
Spion Kop, Battle of
Sports
Spurgeon, Charles
Stalin, Joseph
Stamp Act
Standard Oil
Stanley, Henry Morton
Stead, William Thomas
Stubbs, Peter
Submarine warfare
Sudan.
See also
Omdurman, Battle of
See also
Omdurman, Battle of
Suez Canal
Sugar
‘Sugar Cane, The’ (poem)
Sumptuary laws
Sweden
Sydney, Sir Henry
Syria
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tagore, Satyendernath
Tanaka, Ryukichi
Tanganyika
Tanzania
Tariffs
Tasmania
Taxation
in American colonies
taxation without representation
See also under
India
India
Taxation No Tyranny
(Johnson)
(Johnson)
Tea
Technology
naval technology
Telegraphy
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Terrorism.
See also
World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks of 11 September 2001
See also
World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks of 11 September 2001
Terry, Samuel
Textiles
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thagi
Thatcher, James
Thomas, Lowell
Thomason, James
Thomson, James
Thornton, Henry
Thornton, Richard
Threlfall, William
Tibet
Tiedemann, von (Major)
Tighe, George
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar
Times, The
Tirpitz (Admiral)
Tobacco
Tories
Torture
Townshend, Charles
Trade
with Commonwealth countries
free trade
terms of trade
See also
Imports; Protectionism; Tariffs
Imports; Protectionism; Tariffs
Transjordan
Trollope, Anthony
Trotha, Lothar von
Trucanini (Aborigine)
Trusteeships
Tucker, Josiah
Turkey.
See also
Gallipoli; Ottoman Empire
See also
Gallipoli; Ottoman Empire
Turnbull, Sir Richard
Underhill, Edward
Union of Parliaments
United Nations
United States
as anti-imperialist
Articles of Confederation
defence spending
empire of
immigrants in
loans to Britain
and Second World War
Universities Mission to Central Africa
Vanity Fair
(Thackeray)
(Thackeray)
Venezuela
Versailles peace conference
Victoria Falls
Victoria Memorial (Calcutta)
Victoria (Queen)
Diamond Jubilee
as Empress of India
Victorians
Vidyalankar, Mrityunjay
Vincent, Matthias
Virginia
colonization of
Jamestown
Virginia Company
Volkner, Carl S.
Von der Goltz, Colmar
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon
Wales
Waller, Edmund
Walpole, Horace
War of Austrian Succession
War of Spanish Succession
War of Steel and Gold, The
(Brailsford)
(Brailsford)
Warren, Sir Charles
Warrior
(battleship)
(battleship)
Washington, George
Wateson, George
Watt, Alan
Waugh, Evelyn
Wealth of Nations, The
(Smith)
(Smith)
Wedgwood, Josiah
Weekly Review
Weingott, Alex and Sam
Welles, Sumner
Wellesley (Marquess)
West Indies
slave population of British West Indies
Whigs
White, John
White Man’s Burden
Wickham, R.
Wilberforce, William
Wilhelm II (Kaiser)
Wilkie, Wendell
William of Orange
Williams, Henry
Wilson, Henry
Wilson, Horace H.
Wilson, Lady Sarah
Wilson, Woodrow
Winant, John G.
Winthrop, John
Wodehouse, P. G.
Wolseley, Sir Garnet
Woolf, Leonard
World Bank
World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks of 11 September 2001,
Wyatt, Sir Francis
Wylie, Macleod
York (Duke of)
Younghusband, Francis
Zambezi river
Zambia
Zanzibar
Zimbabwe
1
The ban on sporting tours of Africa was in fact quite easy to reconcile with the liberal imperialist assumptions of my youth. It seemed obvious that in denying black South Africans civil and political rights, the Afrikaners were merely showing their true colours and vindicating earlier (but sadly unsuccessful) efforts by the enlightened British to break their dominance. I am afraid the possibility that the apartheid system might have anything to do with British rule – or that the British had ever practiced their own tacit systems of apartheid – never occurred to me.
2
The original
boucaniers
were marooned seamen or escaped slaves who cured strips of meat on a simple barbecue known as a
boucan
.
boucaniers
were marooned seamen or escaped slaves who cured strips of meat on a simple barbecue known as a
boucan
.
3
The detailed descriptions of Morgan’s famous raids on Spanish possessions are based on the writings of a Dutchman named Exquemlin who apparently took part in some of the raids. His book
De Americaensche Zee-Rovers
(c. 1684) was translated as
The History of the Bucaniers.
Morgan sued the English publishers not so much because Exquemlin accused him of sanctioning atrocities by his men but because he implied that Morgan was an indentured servant when he arrived in the Caribbean.
De Americaensche Zee-Rovers
(c. 1684) was translated as
The History of the Bucaniers.
Morgan sued the English publishers not so much because Exquemlin accused him of sanctioning atrocities by his men but because he implied that Morgan was an indentured servant when he arrived in the Caribbean.
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