Citations with the tag: GREAT Britain -- Colonies
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- The Policy and Status of the United States Army II. SIZE OF THE LEADING ARMIES.
// Congressional Digest; Mar1938, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p73Lists the size of the armies of the leading nations of the world. British Empire; France; Germany; Italy; Japan; Russia; United States; Population, active troops, trained reserve, separate air force of the leading nations.
- LETTER FROM THE WEST INDIES.
Taper, Bernard // New Yorker; 6/28/1958, Vol. 34 Issue 19, p34No abstract available.
- Estimated Population of American Colonies, 1630-1780.
Taper, Bernard // World Almanac & Book of Facts; 2000, p383No abstract available.
- THE GROWTH OF COMMONWEALTH.
Taper, Bernard // In Britain; Oct/Nov2002, Vol. 12 Issue 7, p6Features the imperial history of British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol, England. Location of the museum; Worldwide legacy on the interchange of people; Illustration of the journey of voyager John Cabot through British and world history.
- The empire strikes back.
Porter, Bernard // History Today; Sep96, Vol. 46 Issue 9, p11Assesses the possible domestic repercussions of the disappearance of the British empire. Impact of the empire on its colonial subject and their successor states; Distortion of Britain's national development; Traces of an older culture; Social imperialism in early 1900s; Break-up of the British...
- Legacies of empire.
Richenberg, Alan // History Today; Mar98, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p8Presents an essay about the British Empire and its legacies. Overview of the standard of living of American colonists during the time of George III; Implication of the anniversary of decolonisation.
- Estimated Population of American Colonies, 1630-1780.
Richenberg, Alan // World Almanac & Book of Facts; 2001, p369Presents tabular data showing the estimated population of the American colonies from 1630 through 1780. Maine; New Hampshire; Vermont; Plymouth and Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia;...
- Estimated Population of American Colonies, 1630-1780.
Richenberg, Alan // World Almanac & Book of Facts; 2002, p376Presents tabular data showing the estimated population of the American colonies from 1630 through 1780. Maine; New Hampshire; Vermont; Plymouth and Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia;...
- Estimated Population of American Colonies, 1630-1780.
Richenberg, Alan // World Almanac & Book of Facts; 2003, p398Presents tabular data showing the estimated population of the American colonies from 1630 through 1780. Maine; New Hampshire; Vermont; Plymouth and Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia;...
- THE FOUNDING OF WILLIAMSBURG.
Alter, Judy // Williamsburg; 2002, p9Eventually, there were many problems with Jamestown as the Great Britain colony's capital in Virginia. In 1633, a settlement was established inland from Jamestown. It was called Middle Plantation. The city was renamed Williamsburg in honor of King William III of England. Williamsburg was laid...
- Legacies of empire.
Clements, Peter // History Today; Apr98, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p5Considers historical interpretations of the British Empire. Idea of Britain as `good' colonial power; Gauging the legacies of empire on the British; Significance of British imperialism.
- Mugged by the mother country.
Rostron, Bryan // New Statesman; 01/31/2000, Vol. 129 Issue 4471, p31Criticizes how Great Britain and its press portray and treat their colonized countries. British press' portrayal of South Africa; Shabby treatment received by the author from a British newspaper.
- Last shards of its empire jab at modern, downsized Britain.
MacLeod, Alexander // Christian Science Monitor; 4/28/97, Vol. 89 Issue 106, p1Focuses on the remaining British colonies, after Hong Kong is turned over to Chinese rules on June 30, 1997. Population of Britain's remaining dependencies; How some of these countries feel about British rule; Outline of controversies in Saint Helena and the Falkland Islands; Speculations about...
- Jamaicans choose the queen.
MacLeod, Alexander // Hot Calaloo; Jul2011, p13The article reports that 60 percent of Jamaican respondents in the survey held by Bill Johnson admit that Jamaica would be economically and politically developed as a British colony.
- Making the eimpire British: Scotland in the atlantic world 1542-1707.
Armitage, David // Past & Present; May97, Vol. 155 Issue 1, p34Presents information on the British empire in the eighteenth century. Identification of the countries which made up the British empire; Details on the origins of the British empire; Indepth look at the British empire.
- "A DELICATE BALANCE": RESIDENT LABOUR ON SETTLER FARMS IN KENYA, UNTIL MAU MAU.
Youe, Christopher // Canadian Journal of History; Aug87, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p209Focuses on the impact of colonization of Kenya by Great Britain on the peasants of the African country. Overview of landlord capitalism; Oppression of black sharecroppers and labor tenants on white farms; Lack of agricultural development in Kenya; Account on the Mau Mau liberation struggle...
- ORNAMENTALISM.
Cannadine, David // History Today; May2001, Vol. 51 Issue 5, p12Describes the British Empire from the late 1850s to early 1950s. Extension of the social order of Great Britain; Concept of the imperial metropolis and its periphery; Imperialism and ornamentalism; Cultivation and intensification of racial differences; Consideration of class and status in the...
- The sun never sets on penguins and volcanoes.
Whitelaw, Kevin // U.S. News & World Report; 07/07/97, Vol. 123 Issue 1, p50Discusses the extent of the British empire following the July 1, 1997 loss of Hong Kong to China. The control of Bermuda and the Cayman Islands; The reason many of the small islands do not become independent; The makeup of the majority of the remaining British territories.
- A revolution which will ever be remembered
Letts, John // Geographical (Campion Interactive Publishing); Sep1990, Vol. 62 Issue 9, p22No abstract available.
- The Empire strikes back.
Royle, Stephen // Geographical (Campion Interactive Publishing); Jul95, Vol. 67 Issue 7, p10Focuses on the status of three British colonies. Negotiations over Hong Kong's sovereignty; Renewal of claims for Falkland Islands' Las Malvinas; Bermuda's economic independence from Great Britain.
- Acadians in Exile .
Royle, Stephen // Horizon Canada (English edition); Jan2001, pN.PAGPresents a chart depicting the distribution of deportees among British American colonies.
- "Their Colonial Condition": Connections Between French-Canadians and Irish Catholics in the "Nation" and the "Dublin University Magazine."
King, Jason // Eire-Ireland; Spring/Summer2007, Vol. 42 Issue 1/2, p108This essay discusses the association between Canada and Ireland in Irish journalism. The Irish periodicals the "Nation" and the "Dublin University Magazine" depicted Canada as a politically divided British colony similar to Ireland. The author suggests Canadian political reforms influenced...
- The Declaratory Act.
King, Jason // Declaratory Act; 2009, p1Presents the text of the Declaratory Act, passed by British Parliament on March 18, 1766 restating the right of British government over its American colonies. Denial of the right to colonial governments of nullifying British law.
- Identity Crisis.
Wareham, John // Across the Board; Feb2000, Vol. 37 Issue 2, p49Discusses a New Zealand native's experience in his decision to become a citizen of the United States. Advantages of assuming the identity of an important organization; Criticisms on the monarchy and the British Empire; Reasons he decided to be an American citizen.
- Barbados: Gateway to America.
Davidson, Carla // American Heritage; Feb/Mar99, Vol. 50 Issue 1, p28Reports on the history of Barbados. Great Britain's tenure as the island's sole colonizer; Early ties to North American colonies; Barbados' image as `gateway to America' during the colonial period; Future American President George Washington's visit to Barbados; Historical destinations in...
- Colonial policy and Nigerian cotton exports, 1939-1951.
Hinds, Allister // International Journal of African Historical Studies; 1996, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p25Examines several factors that shaped colonial policy towards the production of cotton for exportation, from Nigeria to the United Kingdom between 1939 and 1951. Failure of British and colonial officials to achieve large quantities of cotton for exportation; Review of Nigeria's cultivation of...
- Britonia: The Forgotten Colony.
Young, Simon // History Today; Oct2000, Vol. 50 Issue 10, p5Focuses on Britonia, a sixth century A.D. British Celtic colony in Galicia, Spain which lost its identity through the centuries. Comparison to the British Celtic colony of Brittany in France; Reason for the loss of its identity; Role of a village in north-eastern Galicia in tracing its origins.
- American History: The Boston Tea Party.
Young, Simon // Junior Scholastic (Teacher's Edition); 11/13/2000, Vol. 103 Issue 7, pT-3Presents a lesson plan designed to enable students to understand the dispute between Great Britain and its American Colonies over taxes and the significance of the Boston Tea Party.
- THE VIRGINIA COLONY.
Alter, Judy // Williamsburg; 2002, p6The first settlers from England landed at Jamestown, Virginia, on the James River in 1607. Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in North America. It was the capital of the colony of Virginia before Williamsburg. Life was hard for these English settlers before they learned to grow...
- MEMSAHIBS AND MOTHERHOOD IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY COLONIAL INDIA.
Chaudhuri, Nupur // Victorian Studies; Summer88, Vol. 31 Issue 4, p517Focuses on the experiences of confinement, delivery, and infant care of the memsahibs or British housewives in 19th-century colonial India. Role of memsahibs in the growth of the British empire; Discrimination against memsahibs; Difficulties experienced by memsahibs during pregnancy and childbirth.
- Preface.
Moore, Brian L.; Johnson, Michele A. // Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperialism ; 2004, preceding p1A preface for the book "Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperialism in Jamaica, 1865-1920" is presented.
- The picturesque and the homogenisation of Empire.
Auerbach, Jeffrey // British Art Journal; Spring/Summer2004, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p47The article discusses the unifying effect of the picturesque aesthetic that emerged during the second half of the eighteenth century in England. The serene landscapes depicted in contemporary art homogenized many regions of the British empire, such as South Africa, India, Australia, and the...
- THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC COLONIES.
Nobleman, Marc Tyler // Thirteen Colonies; 2002, p27The Middle Atlantic colonies include New York, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Some of these areas had first been claimed by Dutch and Swedish settlers. The English took over these regions, however, and formed their own colonies. In 1624, Dutch settlers from the Netherlands...
- THE SOUTHERN COLONIES.
Nobleman, Marc Tyler // Thirteen Colonies; 2002, p33Virginia was the first of the thirteen English colonies and the first southern colony. The other southern colonies were North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. In 1663, King Charles II granted land in North America to eight English lords. The land was originally called Carolina in honor of...
- Revolutionary threads of slavery.
Howe, Darcus // New Statesman; 3/26/2007, Vol. 136 Issue 4837, p22In this article, written in light of the 2007 bicentenary abolishing slavery in the British empire, the author discusses the racist underpinnings of servitude. He notes that under European slavery non-white individuals only were enslaved. According to the author the rebelliousness of slaves...
- British Frontier Warfare Logistics and the 'Black Line', Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), 1830.
Connor, John // War in History; Apr2002, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p143The 1825�31 frontier war in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) shows the importance of logistics to British success in colonial conflict during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Despite superior numbers and weaponry, the British were unable to defeat the Tasmanian Aborigines until the...
- BRISTOL FASHION.
Connor, John // Travel Trade; 4/6/2005, p8The article discusses places to visit in Bristol, England. Bristol's history is peppered with pioneering seafarers, transatlantic adventurers, slave traders and daring entrepreneurs. Bristol remains a working city. A good place for visitors to start is the impressive new British Empire and...
- THE BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION OF 1924.
Walthew, Kenneth // History Today; Aug81, Vol. 31 Issue 8, p34Discusses the history of the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. Completion of the Wembley National Stadium in London, England; Impact of employee strikes on the exhibition; Results of the exhibition.
- The British Empire.
Walthew, Kenneth // History Today; Feb96, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p13Opinion. Discusses the history of the British Empire. Its decline and fall; Discrimination against non-white communities; Differences between the lands which were part of the imperial structure.
- FOR THE RECORD.
Walthew, Kenneth // Foreign Affairs; May/Jun2010, Vol. 89 Issue 3, p158A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Complexity and Collapse," in the March/April 2010 issue.
- Give It Back to the Indians.
Woodhead, Katherine // New Republic; 4/22/40, Vol. 102 Issue 17, p538Presents a letter to the editor citing the fate of civilization of the British Empire.
- EMPIRE DAY.
Grey, Earl // Ontario Readers, Third Book; 1/1/1909, p4The article presents the author's insights on the Empire Day, a festival which celebrates the British Empire's fight for freedom, equal rights, and fair play, as well as Canada's potential to become the most powerful of all the self-governing countries.
- Africa Emerges.
Grey, Earl // Time; 3/17/1952, Vol. 59 Issue 11, p31The article discusses the efforts of Great Britain to secure its empire in Africa. Great Britain founded the Gold Coast and Nigeria. It also acquired Tanganyika as a League of Nations mandate from Germany. To secure its remaining British Africa territory, Great Britain plan to amalgamate...
- Growing Up Refugee.
Ray, Manas // History Workshop Journal; Apr2002, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p149India's case is unique in the history of anti-colonial struggle: the independence from British rule that came after a long, popular, and difficult nationalist movement also meant for a vast number of its people banishment from homeland. The city that has been most affected by this sudden and...
- Natal Votes to Join Union.
Ray, Manas // America; 6/19/1909, Vol. 1 Issue 10, p255The article reports on the majority vote of the Colony of Natal in favor of the plan of the new South African Union arranged in a conference of British and South African Commissioners in 1909. The approval assures federation of the South African colonies, namely, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, the...
- Speak of the Devil! .
Ray, Manas // Horizon Canada (English edition); Jan2001, pN.PAGFocuses on the prosecution of persons accused of witchcraft in British colonies from 1638 to 1697. Number of persons prosecuted; Arrest of several women in Salem, Massachusetts; Protection given by the government of New France.
- Claiming Newfoundland for the Queen .
Ray, Manas // Horizon Canada (English edition); Jan2001, pN.PAGDetails the claiming of Newfoundland as a territory of Great Britain by explorer Humphrey Gilbert.
- POSTCOLONIALISM AND SCOTTISH STUDIES.
Macdonald, Graeme // New Formations; Autumn2006, Issue 59, p116The article discusses the significant role of the Scots and Scotland in the British Empire, both as influential contributors to the moral and philosophical reasoning, the economic theory and the material practices and management of empire and imperialism, and also as a key source of resistance...
- Pitcairn Islands.
Macdonald, Graeme // CIA World Fact Book; 2004, pN.PAGPresents information on Pitcairn Islands, the most isolated dependency of Great Britain. Historical background; Geography; Demography; Politics and government; Economic overview.
- EDUCATION FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT.
Perham, Margery // Foreign Affairs; Oct45, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p130The article discusses British colonial problems. Also, the article attempts to find what self government for colonies means and presents some examples both of the achievements and of the difficulties of the British in the sphere of colonial government. Britain's greatest achievement has been her...
