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Britain as a World Power

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Facts

• Empire partly comprises old settlement colonies

• India separate, but under British rule

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Execution of Mutineers at Peshawar in 1857

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Government House, Calcutta

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Ripon’s Ideas

• Local self-government

• Schools in English

• Elections

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Empire Expanding

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Lunatic Line

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Background

• Tendency toward neo-mercantilism

• European balance of power had shifted– Germany most powerful rival

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Attitude Change

• Empire rediscovered

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Rosebery Salisbury

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Joseph Chamberlain

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Imperialist Creed

“Highest Stage of Capitalism”?

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Sir Thomas Lipton

• 1850-1931

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Cecil Rhodes

• 1853-1902

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Imperialist Creed

• Patriotism

• Natives better off under British rule

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Lord Curzon

• 1859-1925

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Lord Cromer

• 1841-1917

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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Dr. David Livingstone

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Imperial Conference, 1902

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Why Did Empire Fail?

• Inherent contradiction in trends

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The Boer War and After

• Demonstrated gap between ideology and reality