Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (72 page)

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Ruskin, John
 
Russia.
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)
 
Sepoys.
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
 
South America
 
South Sea Company
 
Soviet Union.
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
 
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
 
Taxation No Tyranny
(Johnson)
 
Tea
 
Technology
 
naval technology
 
Telegraphy
 
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
 
Terrorism.
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
 
Transjordan
 
Trollope, Anthony
 
Trotha, Lothar von
 
Trucanini (Aborigine)
 
Trusteeships
 
Tucker, Josiah
 
Turkey.
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)
 
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)
 
Warren, Sir Charles
 
Warrior
(battleship)
 
Washington, George
 
Wateson, George
 
Watt, Alan
 
Waugh, Evelyn
 
Wealth of Nations, The
(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
.
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.

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