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	British Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Empire was, at one time, referred to as "the empire on which the sun never sets" because the empire's span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous colonies.
		The period is distinguished by an unprecedented pursuit of what has been termed "empire for empire's sake", aggressive competition for overseas territorial acquisitions and the emergence in colonising countries of doctrines of racial superiority which denied the fitness of subjugated peoples for self-government.
		British withdrawal from the southern and eastern parts of Africa was complicated by the region's white settler populations: Kenya had already provided an example in the Mau Mau Uprising of violent conflict exacerbated by white landownership and reluctance to concede majority rule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_empire (7768 words)

	Gold Mining in Ghana
		The þJewelþ of the British empire was India and British colonial policy was primarily concerned with the protection of the important route to India.
		During the colonial period British trade and foreign policy were virtually undistinguishable because of the need by British producers to not only fueled their factories with foreign resources, but also to create new markets for their products and develop areas for their capital to move into.
		Colonialism was developed in to an art form by the British deriving its ideology from a number of nineteenth century British theories: evangelical Christianity and social Darwinism, and on the other side free trade and laisser-faire.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/ghangold.htm (2852 words)

	The Colonial Period 1788 - 1901
		British settlement of Australia began as a penal colony governed by a captain of the Royal Navy.
		Despite the preponderance of British troops in the Australian colonies, colonial military forces were maintained from as early as December 1788, when the commandant of Norfolk Island, Phillip Gidley King, ordered his free male settlers (numbering six) to practise musketry on Saturdays.
		British soldiers (as distinct from armed police and civilians) became involved only rarely, notably during the period of martial law in Tasmania between 1828 and 1832 and in New South Wales in the mid-1820s and late 1830s.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/colonial.htm (1472 words)

	colonial.html
		The British introduction of this parasitic model of human and environmental interactions was to create a colonial legacy of dependency, degradation, and impoverishment that was to prove disastrous for the East African geography throughout the colonial period and the modern era.
		The most important philosophical foundations shaping British involvement in East Africa are contained within the male-dominant, Judeo-Christian traditions and the emerging capitalist ethical and socioeconomic frameworks embraced centrally as ideological and social models at the turn of the century in Western Europe and by the British in particular.
		These philosophical foundations were extremely important in determining the dominating and exploitative agendas of British colonization in East Africa, and the ways in which the sustainable strategies of traditional societies and indigenous cultural groups in East Africa were disrupted and disregarded in favor of the increasingly destructive and oppressive tendencies of the British colonial framework.
	www.lclark.edu /~soan/colonial.html (1605 words)

	British Colonial Time Period & Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In order that we might gain a better understanding of the style and design that emerged from this British Colonial time period, it is imperative for us to examine the historical and political context that brought forth this exotic and often regal form of fashion and design.
		The establishment of the empire resulted primarily from commercial and political motives and emigration movements; its long endurance resulted from British command of the seas and preeminence in international commerce, and from the flexibility of British rule.
		British Colonial style from this time period evokes the romance of late 19th century Imperialism when the British colonies dominated parts of India, China, and the South Seas.
	www.danieljamesco.com /infoedu.html (851 words)

	An Outline of American History - The Colonial Period
		By the end of the colonial period, one-third of all vessels under the British flag were built in New England.
		Eventually most colonies became royal colonies, but in the mid-17th century, the English were too distracted by the Civil War (1642-1649) and Oliver Cromwell's Puritan Commonwealth and Protectorate to pursue an effective colonial policy.
		The governor of the colony agreed and dismissed the court.
	www.usemb.se /usis/history/chapter2.html (4490 words)

	Indian History - British Period - Colonial Rule (1858 — August 1918)
		British continued to expand the railways and telegraphic network and in 1868 new Ambala — Delhi railway line was started.
		By the partition of Bengal in 1905 British successfully sowed the seeds of division between Hindus and Muslims that lead ultimately to the partition of India in 1947.
		British shifted the imperial capital from Calcutta to Delhi in 1912.
	www.gatewayforindia.com /history/british_history3.htm (1849 words)

	British Period
		Oswald was a slave dealer and an adviser to the British ministry who helped to draft the terms of peace offered to the American colonies.
		The colonists were later released from their contracts of indenture by the British colonial court.
		Although the early years of the colony were profitable, Turnbull's ambitions were doomed by drought and poor management.
	volusiahistory.com /pbrit.htm (1113 words)

	Historical Eras
		In 1620, a Pilgrim colony was established at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts, followed in 1630 by the Puritan colony of Massachusetts Bay.
		All of the colonies were to some degree impacted in the 18th century by a Contest for Empire, which pitted the great world powers, France and England, against one another.
		Boston became the focus of colonial opposition in the Boston Massacre (1770), the Boston Tea Party (1773) and the Parliamentary response in the Coercive Acts (1774).
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/eras.html (3901 words)

	Hall Lanterns at Glenbrook Antiques
		Popular during the English Regency and American Federal Periods these hanging glass hall lanterns were brought to India by British tea importers for use in the trading houses.
		Green British Colonial Period Hall lantern British Colonial Period medium size hall lantern.
		British Colonial Period Etched Hall Lantern Clear wheel cut and etched Anglo-Raj hall lantern or hundi.
	pages.glenbrookantiques.com /6194/InventoryPage/1177427/1.html (700 words)

	books on british colonialism \| Ask MetaFilter
		The British in Africa - try Weep Not, Child by Ngugi wa Thiong'o for a description of growing up during the Mau Mau 'insurgency' in Kenya in the 1950's.
		Social writer Mike Davis examines the "coincidence" between the series of famines that swept accross Egypt to China at the end of the 19th century and the advent of British Colonialism.
		Hope that it still counts in spite of this - it deals with a British army colonel and his wife who decide to stay on in India after independence, and so deals with colonial themes and is besides a rather lovely book.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/16340 (1284 words)

	British - Ceylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Copper coins, expressed in cents of the rupee, were specially struck for the Colony at the British Indian Government Mint, Calcutta, and were released into circulation on the 1st January, 1872.
		Approval was given to this measure by an Order in Council dated 9th February, 1892, and the new system came into force in Ceylon on the 1st October, 1892.
		Due to the fact that in the year 1892 the British Indian mints were precluded from striking silver coins of a fineness standard of less than 916.6 parts in 1000, the Ceylon silver token coinage was originally executed at the Royal Mint, London.
	lakdiva.org /coins/british_ceylon/british_colonial.html (606 words)

	Wel Come to Virakesari Travel Site
		British colonial period vintage hotel of the Aitken Spence Group, in this scenic 'tea town' reputed as a health resort.
		Colonial charm and comfort in the tea country; Built in the traditional style, yet showing a marked British influence with its old world charm and graciousness, Bandarawela Hotel is situated over 4000 ft above sea level and is Sri Lanka's first mountain resort hotel.
		Village hotel with distinctive British colonial period ambience, 1980m above sea level, with views of the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club, in premier hill resort of scenic landscape and misty tea gardens.
	www.virakesari.lk /vira/Travel/NuwaraEliyaHotels.htm (1001 words)

	Colonial Period
		Colonial America--Another terrific site filled with links to all types of information including clothing, Salem Witch Trials, notable people of the time and more.
		Colonial USA --Learn about the French and Indian War, the Salem Witch Trials, the lives of famous Americans, and other important events during this era in American history.
		The Southern Colonies--In contrast to New England and the middle colonies were the predominantly rural southern settlements: Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.
	www.tms.riverview.wednet.edu /LRC/colonial.htm (2518 words)

	Lessons on the Lake - Moments in Time: Exploring the History of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin
		The name "Tchefuncte," a Choctaw name for a local plant, refers to a period of Native American culture as well as to the hefuncte River which enters the lake at Madisonville.
		The British control the Florida Parishes (St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Livingston, Washington, St. Helena, East and West Feliciana) on the northshore of Lake Pontchartrain.
		The antebellum period is a time of wealth for some in the Lake Pontchartrain Basin.
	pubs.usgs.gov /of/1998/of98-805/lessons/chpt10/index.htm (3198 words)

	The Colonial Era
		Describe the religious aspects of the earliest colonies (e.g., Puritanism in Massachusetts, Anglicanism in Virginia, Catholicism in Maryland, Quakerism in Pennsylvania).
		Understand how the British colonial period created the basis for the development of political self-government and a free-market economic system and the differences between the British, Spanish, and French colonial systems.
		Explain the early democratic ideas and practices that emerged during the colonial period, including the significance of representative assemblies and town meetings.
	www.fresno.k12.ca.us /divdept/sscience/colonialera.htm (246 words)

	13 Originals
		Sir Richard Grenville led the fleet that brought them to the New World, the Governor of the colony was Master Ralph Lane and among the colonists was Walter Raleigh's confidant Thomas Harriot, author of "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia", a chronicle of their adventure.
		Although Rhode Island was one of the first colonies to embrace autonomy from the British and espouse Revolutionary ideals, it was the last of the 13 colonies to ratify the Federal Constitution and became a State in 1790.
		In 1681 however, Pennsylvania's colonial status was sealed when approximately the present state of Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn, a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), to offset a debt owed to Penn's father.
	www.timepage.org /spl/13colony.html (4061 words)

	The History Place - Early Colonial Era
		is signed by the 41 men, establishing a form of local government in which the colonists agree to abide by majority rule and to cooperate for the general good of the colony.
		The bloody war rages up and down the Connecticut River valley in Massachusetts and in the Plymouth and Rhode Island colonies, eventually resulting in 600 English colonials being killed and 3,000 Native Americans, including women and children on both sides.
		King Philip (the colonist's nickname for Metacomet, chief of the Wampanoags) is hunted down and killed on August 12, 1676, in a swamp in Rhode Island, ending the war in southern New England and ending the independent power of Native Americans there.
	www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/revolution/rev-early.htm (1939 words)

	From Ceylonese to Sri Lankan Buddhism
		Under British rule, the monasteries lacked official status and were unable to defend their land or rights.
		Meanwhile, in the field of Buddhist studies, some of the British officials, who served in the Civil Service of Ceylon, through their private study and research, developed an appreciation of the Buddhist culture of Ceylon.
		Secondly, the fact that, by the British constitution, the Queen of England is the head of the Anglican Church and Defender of the Faith, caused in the Buddhists opposition to Ceylon's constitution of 1946-47.
	www.budsas.org /ebud/ebdha152.htm (1607 words)

	Education in India: Educational Subcontracting - a model from the British colonial period in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Educational Subcontracting - a model from the British colonial period in India
		I happened on an article titled Educational "Subcontracting" and the Spread of Religious Nationalism: Hindu and Muslim Nationalist Schools in Colonial India which provides some information on the education policy of the British in India during the 1800s and early 1900s.
		The author describes the British policy of focussing on (Indian) private-sector provision of primary education after 1854, with British subsidies being widely distributed to private Indian schools, which the author claims was central to the replacement of more traditional forms of education with Western-style ones.
	prayatna.typepad.com /education/2003/12/educational_sub.html (336 words)

	Puritans, early American colonial history
		Their accomplishments were sometimes referred to as the "Puritan Awakening." Two generations later, a determined a civic-minded generation called the "Glorious Generation" reacted to unrest and uncertainty in the colonies by beating back all their foes from the French to the Native Americans to other colonists.
		Prior to this time there had been Spanish settlements in Florida; the French had a colony in South Carolina, and Champlain was contemplating his colony on the St. Lawrence river; De Soto had discovered the Mississippi River and Sir Francis Drake as well as the Spanish in their galleons had explored the Pacific coast.
		By the end of the 17th century, a dozen American colonies were functioning as valuable components of the British colonial empire.
	www.geocities.com /vertaalguy/colonial.html (724 words)

	British Memorial Garden New York - History
		During the Dutch period, New Amsterdam had its center at the southern end of Manhattan, near the main docks.
		In 1664 the city came under British rule, and was named New York in honor of its proprietor, the Duke of York, later King James II.
		But certainly the most flourishing period for Hanover Square was during the British colonial era, when it was one of New York’s prominent centers of commerce and culture.
	www.britishmemorialgarden.org /history.html (1196 words)

	George Washington Papers: Time Line: Colonial Period
		October, Washington resigns commission when Virginia colonial forces are reduced to separate autonomous companies.
		April, is appointed volunteer aide de camp to British General Edward Braddock and marches with him and British regulars against the French at Fort Duquesne.
		Shortly thereafter, resigns commission as commander of Virginia colonial forces to attend to Mount Vernon and private affairs.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/gwhtml/gwtime.html (528 words)

	African History on the Internet - Colonial Period
		Its Images of Colonial Africa exhibit are photographs by missionary Laura Collins of Kenya, Cameroon, Congo (Kinshasa), and Uganda in the early 1900s.
		Has a map of Africa in the early 1900s showing colonial possessions, a map of the Maji Maji rebellion 1905-1906, boundaries of the former Biafra (Nigeria), Southern Africa 1968-1975, the Chad civil war mid to late 1980s, Sudan civil war 1983.
		He was a colonial administrator in Kenya in 1958 and has played a leading role in alerting the world to the loss of biodiversity.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/history/hiscolonial.html (7923 words)

	Colonial Project Objectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		period, including the significance of representative assemblies and town meetings.
		reate a life size tableau related to the occupation of their assumed character based on visual representations of such settings for a school colonial fair.
		reate a costume representative of the historical occupation of their assumed character based on visual representations of such clothing for a school colonial fair..
	www.everyschool.org /u/global/rdcurry/colonial2002objectives.html (355 words)

	golftours
		A legacy from the British colonial period, golfing in Sri Lanka has many nostalgic links to this era.
		Today, the remnants of this period are put in good use by hordes of tourists and traveling executives enticed by the calm and soothing atmosphere of the golfing terrains.
		Supposedly the second oldest course outside the British Isles, this course shows its age.
	www.victorialodgesrilanka.com /golftours.html (689 words)

	Augustin Rochon Plantation Site
		Established by the 1760s British colonial period, the plantation was plundered in 1780 during the Spanish siege of Mobile, and never reoccupied.
		A look at British maps from the 1770s quickly revealed that this plantation was the home of Augustin Rochon, who grew up with his brothers and sisters at the Dog River plantation established by their father Charles.
		On October 1, a raiding party of Choctaw Indians, allies of the British, attacked and burned the plantation.
	www.usouthal.edu /archaeology/augustin_rochon.htm (1082 words)

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