He was most effective in creating interest by awakening Victorian morality concerning the still active slave trade occurring in east Africa. ... The British had been present in Nigeria since the middle of the 19th century with many small companies involved in the palm oil and coco industries in 1879 these small companies were merged together through the leadership of George Goldie producing The Royal Niger Company. ... France was moving east from Senegal. ... Salisbury spent much of his time hyping this idea and in the process found McKinnon and his British East Africa Company. The British Eas...

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First the author explains that the French politicians were impressed by the idea of having some part of east in short-term (some land from a very developed agricultural society-Turkey-), the thought of capturing the Ottoman Empire's lands that include the middle-east which the French politicians can't wait to get a part from. ... As time passes the British War Council decided to send the famous 29th Division to the East from Europe and General Sir Ian Hamilton is appointed as commander-in-chief for the operation. ...

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When the London merchants of what became the East India Company first sent ships to the East in 1601, they were not bound for India at all but for the Spice Islands of the Dutch East Indies, and the English traders who set foot on the subcontinent a little later actually sought to avoid conquest. ... The East India Company was originally conceived in September 1599, when a group of London merchants resolved to raise 30,000 for sending ships to the East to collect silks, spices and jewels "upon a purely merchantile bottom." ... By 1639, English traders were established on the east coast, too, l...

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It lies on the European continental shelf and to the Northwest of continental Europe and East of Ireland. ... The island is physically connected with continental Europe via the channel tunnel, the longest undersea rail tunnel in the world which was completed in 1993.geographically, the island is marked by low, rolling countryside in the East and south, while hills and mountains predominated in the western and northern region.it is surrounded by over 1,000 smaller islands and isles. ...

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Britain had an Empire to defend; Russia was pushing in the Middle East and was already present in Persia; Italy wanted to live up to its glorious past and Germany wanted to create its own sea power, or Weltpolitik. ...

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The slow uptake of technical innovation was key in the British decline, for instance the Gilchrist-Thomas process of removing brittle phosphorous from pig iron opened the way to the use of phosphorous -rich ores, in plentiful supply in North East England, thus providing the cheapest iron ore in the world for the production of steel. ... Unfortunately the public school formed the model for the new system of secondary education, which the less privileged sectors of the new middle class were allowed to construct for themselves after the Education Act of 1902, and whose main object was to exclude ...

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Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settle...

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In 1803, the Mughal kingdom down-fell. This conclusion happened from many days before due to the inner weakness of the Indian- subcontinent. The Mughal rule, in one word, had been easily turned in the hand of British Imperialism very easily, the power was given to the british , even before they realized their faults. Even if they saw the effects or predict the future they didn't give any kind of heed to it, due to their carelessness. The large and abundant riches wealth of Indian sub continent have been famous and its stories of abundant wealth have been rumoring and spread around t...

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