Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (71 page)

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Leicester (Earl of)
 
Lend-Lease system
 
Leopold II (Belgian king)
 
Levant Company
 
Liberalism/Liberals
 
Liberty
 
Life
magazine
 
Lij Yasu
 
Lipset, Seymour Martin
 
Littleton, Edward
 
Livingstone (Zambian town)
 
Livingstone, David
 
Cambridge University lecture
 
death of
 
and Morant Bay uprising
 
Livingstone, Mary
 
Lloyd George, David
 
Lobengula (Matabele chief)
 
Locke, John
 
Logan, Patrick
 
London
 
London Missionary Society (LMS)
 
Long, Edward
 
Lost World, The
(Doyle)
 
Louis XVI,
 
Low, David
 
Lugard, Frederick
 
Lusitania
(British liner)
 
Lutyens, Edwin
 
Lytton (Lord)
 
 
Macartney, Sir George
 
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
 
Macaulay, Zachary
 
Macdonald, Hector
 
Machonochie, Evan
 
Mackenzie, Charles Frederick
 
McLaren, Kenneth ‘The Boy’
 
Macmillan, Harold
 
Macquarie, Lachlan
 
Madras Literary Gazette
 
Mafeking, siege of
 
Magna Carta
 
Maharaja of Mysore
 
Mahdi, the
 
Makololo tribe
 
Malaya
 
Malthus, Thomas Robert
 
Manning, Frederic
 
Manning, George
 
Mansfield (Lord)
 
“Man Who Would Be King, The” (Kipling)
 
Maoris
 
Maps
 
Maroons
 
Marriage.
 
See also
Sati
 
Marsden, Samuel
 
Marvell, Andrew
 
Maryland
 
Mary I,
 
Massachusetts
 
Massachusetts Bay Company
 
Matabeleland
 
Maugham, W. Somerset
 
Maxim guns
 
Maxwell, Hugh
 
Maxwell, John
 
Mercantilism
 
Mercurius Politicus
 
Mesopotamia.
See
Iraq
 
Methodists
 
Mexico
 
Miantonomo (Indian chief)
 
Middle East
 
Mill, John Stuart
 
Miller, Lewis
 
Milner, Alfred
 
Minute Men
 
Mir Jafar
 
Miscegenation
 
Missionaries.
See also
India, and missionary movement
 
Mitra, Pramathanath Mitra P.
 
Moffat, Robert
 
Moltke, Helmuth von
 
Montagu, Edwin
 
Montgomery-Massingberd, Sir Archibald
 
Morel, Edmund
 
Morgan, Sir Henry
 
Morning Post
 
Morocco
 
Morrison, Herbert
 
Morton, J. B.
 
Mountbatten (Lord)
 
Mughal Emperor
 
Muscovite Company
 
Muslim League
 
Mustafa Kemal
 
Myall Creek massacre (1838)
 
 
Nabobs
 
Nanking, Rape of
 
Napier, Sir Robert
 
Nasser, Gamel Abdel
 
National African Company
 
Nationalism
 
Navigation
 
Navigation Acts
 
Nehru, Jawaharlal
 
Neill (Brigadier-General)
 
New England
 
colonial populations
 
colonists’ wealth in
 
Newfoundland
 
New Hampshire
 
New Jersey
 
Newport, Christopher
 
New Royal African Company
 
Newton, John
 
New York
 
New York Gazette and Weekly Post
 
New Zealand
 
Nigeria
 
Norfolk Island
 
North (Lord)
 
North Carolina
 
Northcliffe (Lord)
 
Northcote, Sir Stafford
 
 
Observations on the state of Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain
(Grant)
 
O’Dwyer, Sir Michael
 
Oil
 
Oliver, Peter
 
Omdurman, Battle of
 
O’Neill, Hugh (Earl of Tyrone)
 
O’Neill, Shane
 
Opium Wars.
See also
India, and opium trade
 
Orientalism
 
Orwell, George
 
Osborne House
 
Ottoman Egyptian Tribute loan (1871)
 
Ottoman Empire
 
 
Pacific islands
 
Page, Walter
 
Paine, Thomas
 
Pakistan
 
Palestine
 
Pall Mall Gazette
 
Palmerston (Lord)
 
Palm oil
 
Panama
 
Park, Mungo
 
Parnell, Charles Stewart
 
Passage to India, A
(Forster)
 
Pearl Harbor
 
Pearse, Patrick
 
Pearson, Karl
 
Pears’ Soap
 
Penn, William
 
Pennsylvania
 
Pepys, Samuel
 
Persia
 
Peru
 
Petty, William
 
Philadelphia
 
Philby, Harry St. John Bridger and Kim
 
Philippines
 
Phillimore, Richard
 
Phrenology
 
Pickering, Neville
 
Pillai, Ananda Ranga
 
Piracy
 
Pitt, Thomas ‘Diamond’
 
Pitt, William (elder)
 
Pitt, William (younger)
 
Plantation (as colonization)
 
Plantations
 
Playfaire, William
 
Pocahontas
 
Pocock, Sir George
 
Political fragmentation/instability
 
Political prisoners
 
Polygamy
 
Pontiac’s Uprising (1763)
 
Portugal/Portuguese empire
 
Poynton, A. H.
 
Pressure groups
 
Price, John Giles
 
Price, Roger
 
Protectionism.
See also
Tariffs
 
Protestantism
 
Prussia
 
Puritans/Pilgrims
 
 
Quakers
 
 
Race issues.
See also under
India
 
Radcliffe, Sir Cyril
 
Radio
 
Raikes, Charles
 
Railways
 
through jungle on Thai-Burmese border
 
Ralegh, Sir Walter
 
Rape
 
Reade, Winwood
 
Redfern, William
 
Reibey, Mary
 
Religion
 
religious toleration in India
 
See also
Catholicism; Islam; Missionaries; Protestantism
 
Responsible government.
See
British Empire, and responsible government system Revere, Paul
 
Revolutions
 
Rhode Island
 
Rhodes, Cecil
 
Rhodes Scholarships
 
Rights
 
Ripon, Marquess of (Viceroy of India)
 
Roanoke Island
 
Robinson, George Frederick Samuel.
See
Ripon, Marquess of
 
Roe, Sir Thomas
 
Rolfe, John
 
Romania
 
Ronalds, Francis
 
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
 
Rosebery (Earl of)
 
Rothschild Bank
 
Rothschild, Ferdinand and Alfred de
 
Rothschild, Lord Nathaniel de
 
Roy, Rammohun
 
Royal African Company
 
Royal Geographical Society
 
Royal Niger Company
 
Rubber
 
‘Rule Britannia’ (song)
 
Ruse, James

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