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INDEX
Abdul Karim (‘Munshi’)
Abyssinia
Acheson, Dean
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Advertisements
Afghanistan
Taliban regime in
Africa
Battle of Shangani River (1893)
British Empire and European colonies in
colonial service in
exploration of
and First World War
Partnership for Africa
‘Scramble for Africa’
West Africa
See also
Germany, African colonies; Slavery;
under
France;
individual countries
Agency problem
Agriculture.
See also
Plantations
Ahmed Shah Abdali
Alcohol
Algeria
Allahabad, Treaty of
Allenby, Edmund
‘Amazing Grace’ (song)
American colonies
and Boston Tea Party
Continental Congresses
Declaration of Independence
population growth in
See also
American War of Independence; New England; Taxation, in American colonies
American Indians
numbers/massacres of
American War of Independence
British military successes in
as civil war
first exchange of fire
loyalist emigration after
loyalists in
Yorktown battle
Amery, Leo
Amherst (Lord)
Amritsar massacre (1919)
Amsterdam.
See also
Holland
Anglican Church Missionary Society
Anglo-American Telegraph Company
Anglo-Dutch merger
Animals
Anson, George
Antarctica
Anti-imperialism.
See also
United States, as anti-imperialist
Anti-Semitism
Arabi Pasha
Arabs
Archdale, John
Architecture
Argentina
Arnold, Matthew
Artillery
Asia
Asquith, Herbert
Atlantic Charter
Atrocities.
See also
Amritsar massacre; India, Indian Mutiny of 1857; India, White Mutiny; Nanking, Rape of
Attlee, Clement
Auden, W. H.
Australia
Aborigines in
paradox of Australian history
and Versailles peace conference
Austria
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
(Chaudhuri)
Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth
Bahadur Shah Zafar
Baines, Thomas
Baker, Herbert
Balcarres (Lord)
Balfour, Arthur
Balfour Report on Imperial Relations
Balkans
Balliol (college)
Baltimore (Lord)
Banks
Banks, Joseph
Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen
Barbados
Bargash (Sultan of Zanzibar)
Baring, Sir Evelyn
Barker, Lady Mary Anne
Barlow, Sir George
Batoka plateau
Battle of Britain
Bedingfeld, Norman
Belgian Congo
Belgium
Bentinck, William
Berlin Conference (1884 – 1885)
Bertie, Francis
Besant, Annie
Bevin, Ernest
Birth rates
Bismarck, Otto von
Black and Tans
Black Sea Straits
Blair, Tony
Bleak House
(Dickens)
Bloemfontein
Boer War
Bogle, George
Bogle, Paul
Book of Common Prayer
Booth, Charles O’Hara
Bose, Janakinath
Bose, Subhas Chandra
Boswell, James
Botha, Louis
Bowater, Joseph
Boycotts
Boy Scout movement
Boys’ Own Paper
and
Boys of the Empire
Brailsford, Henry Noel
Branson, James
Brazil
Brett, Reginald
Bright, Charles
‘Britannia Pacifatrix’ (mural)
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery society
British Commonwealth of Nations
after Second World War
British Empire
in Africa
and Bank of England
beginning of
British immigrants in
colonial troops in First World War
decline/doubts concerning.
See also
Anti-imperialism
defence costs
and First World War
as Greater Britain
and Hitler
informal empire
investments in
legacy of
military campaigns in
and responsible government system
and Second World War
and slavery
as source of entertainment
and Versailles peace conference