After the end of the civil war in England, and the restoration of King Charles II, England closed its grip on the colonies. ... Salutary neglect was now out of the question as the British regular military forces (red-coats) were still in the colonies after the colonial wars, and willing to enforce the new acts. ... On the eve of the revolutionary war the political situation in the American colonies was still fairly stable. ... The War of Independence was just that, a bid for independence. ... Though there was no doubt that the revolutionary war of the 1770's changed the political path th...

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This defeat not only marked the end of the war, but also the end of the first British Empire. ... With the outbreak of World War I (1914-1918), Great Britain declared war on Germany. ... After World War I, the US and Japan developed, especially as naval forces. ... Great Britain joined World War II too and again came out victorious but lost some colonies from which Singapore was the greatest loss. After World War II, Great Britain could no longer afford the expense of administering one quarter of the world's population and thus, .independence was declared in India, Pakistan, Ceylon (Sr...

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Britain, at its imperial zenith, faced a war that sprung from both ideologies of imperialism and nationalism. ... David Kaiser stated in his book, Politics and War: The South African war eventually demonstrated the costs of more serious economic imperialism "that is, of trying to secure economically significant areas with armed force. ... Since the time of the Boer war he has been generally held responsible for the outbreak of the conflict. ... Sir Milner and President Kruger of the Transvaal initiated a war of diplomacy, which eventually cornered the Boers into the war. ... After th...

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English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. ... The war of 1812 was a depiction of English relentless cling to the land that it had lost. ... Prior to the US" inception into World War II, a policy known as the Lend Lease Act was invoked in which the US blatantly supported the Allied Powers (UK, France, and the Soviet Union) via materiel and arms sales. ... World War II saw the induction of modern day tactics, modern day technology, and the idea of global domination was in fact an idea of the past that should stay there. .....

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People called this war as the World War II. ... Hong Kong people were taken in on their war and forced to live a brutal life. ... Through out the First Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, Japanese Annexation of Korea, and the World War I, Japan gained their force and imperialized. ... On the other hand, when the World War II started, Japan was facing a shortage of military demand, thus they had to rely on their occupied territories to make up for those shortages. ... However, Hong Kong was captured by Japan in eighteen days, and the capitulation of Hong Kong was signed on December 26, 1941,...

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Issues like how the Arabs revolted during World War II forced Britain to take the easy way out as they "judged the support of the Arab population in the Middle East as more important than the establishment of a Jewish homeland, and shifted to a pro-Arab stance" (British Empire, Wikipedia). ... The scars of the World Wars also added to the decolonization of the Third World. However, the World War did not single-handedly contribute to motivating the colonies to want to fight for independence. ... It was not certain whether or not Britain and France could have prevented decolonization due to the ...

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The first significant voluntary migration came to the island after the 1580 unification of Portugal and Spain under King Phillip II. ... British Colonial Rule 1655-1838) Being occupied by the greater distractions of Ireland and Europe, British interests in the Caribbean remained at a low level until the end of the English Civil War and Charles I's execution in 1649. ...

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Their harsh taxes and powerful authority over the American colonists triggered the revolutionary war. ... The Revolutionary war fought from 1775-1783 was the War for Independence from the British Empire leaving the 13 colonies to be an independent nation and become the United States. ... The French and Indian War also known, as the Seven Years War in Europe was a huge conflict between England and France and their Indian allies. Although Britain had won the war, King George II decided to undertake a new colonial policy intended to tighten political control over its rather autonomous colonies. ....

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Despite, difficulties, problems finding in this area immigration continued widely in Britain because of it appeal as a place of security and opportunity after the World War II,and by that time Britain became a country of immigration following the large scale of immigration from its former and current colonies. And at the end of this second world war in 1945, Britain was quickly recognized that the reconstruction of British economy required a large influx of immigrants labour.The Royal commission on population reported in 1949 that immigrants of good stock would be welcomed without reserve, and...

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The first two stanzas refer to the Kenyan conflict, while the second two address the war within the poet-as-outsider/insider, between his roles as blood insider but geographical outsider to the Mau Mau Uprising. ... Ironically, wars between people are described as following the beat of a drum - an instrument made of an animal hide stretched over a cylinder. ... The poet appears to condemn such an attitude by comparing the Mau Mau Uprising to the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Leaders of France and Great Britain wanted to avoid another war that would engulf all of Europe, so they introduced a no...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION i DECLARATION ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii ABSTRACT v INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE 4 MASS MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND DEVELOPMENT...

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"All war is so contrary to our interest," they reminded field employees in 1681, "that we cannot too often inculcate to you our strictest aversion thereunto." ... In 1661 they picked up another site when, for a paltry annual rent of 10, King Charles II handed over a barren island called Bombay, which had been part of his dowry from Catherine of Braganza. ...

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