The world's first superpower [sound recording] : the rise of the British Empire from 1497 to 1901
Judd, Denis, 1938-2004
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This course examines the growth and development of the largest empire in world history, the British Empire, beginning with the late 15th-century Tudor dynasty and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901.
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Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2004.
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7 sound discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (72 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm.)
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In container (25 cm.).Course guide includes bibliographical references.Issued also on cassette.
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Lectures delivered by Professor Denis Judd, London Metropolitan University.
Contents:
Lecture 1. The Tudor Empire from the discovery of Newfoundland to the founding of Virginia and the death of Elizabeth I -- Lecture 2. Colonies in the New World -- Lecture 3. The British in India, c. 1600-1815 -- Lecture 4. The American Revolution and the restructured Empire -- Lecture 5. Australia and New Zealand, convicts, settlers, and self-government -- Lecture 6. Ireland, mother country or exploited British colony? -- Lecture 7. The Canadian crisis and the spread of internal colonial self-government -- Lecture 8. Trade dominion, the profits and commerce of empire -- Lecture 9. The British Raj, 1815 to 1904, the high noon of empire in India -- Lecture 10. The Suez Canal, Egypt, Sudan, and the Middle East -- Lecture 11. The partition of Africa, opening up the dark continent -- Lecture 12. Empire builders and empire critics -- Lecture 13. Conflict and war in South Africa -- Lecture 14. Hurrah for the Jubilee! Queen Victoria's 1897 Diamond Jubilee and the meaning of empire.
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9781402595882
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RZA 8836
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English
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261663
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