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THREE WORD SUM

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assertive, expansionist and belligerent

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dom of scot acts

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act of union 1707

declaration act 1720

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based on experiences 1689-1713?

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peacetime lessons of commercial expansion following treaty of Utrecht

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upheld trading systems where?

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N. AMERICA, AFRICA, PARTS OF ASIA, EVEN PENETRATED MEDITERRANEAN AND SPANISH EMPRIE IN S AMERICA

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what ?/3 of gov revenue came from customs duties and harbour and shipping dues

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2/3

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private companies that led b expansion

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The Ldn company, the Plymouth company, east India,

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when Hong Kong ceded to B

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Jan 1841 - chuanbi chuenpi convention

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what was key to b expansion

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profitability… surged synonymously with the commercial/ gluttonous attitudes/conventions of the time
b mad for addictive foreign substances, autonomy over people ect
gain power to the most limited resource: power (land, trade, goods, human resources)

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what continued to make expansion possible

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expositional growth

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what made empire possible 6

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1) SHOESTRING BUDGET
2) LED BY PRIVATISATION
3) COMMONWEALTH KICKSTARTED 1649
4) GAIN OF SURPLUS RESOURCES, EXPOSITIONAL GROWTH
5) ECON GROWTH - FUNDED MERCHANT DEVELOPMENT IN INT MARKETS
6) TERRITORIAL SEARCH - Ottoman Empire, CHINESE EMPIRE, MUGHAL EMPIRE - TRADING CONNECTIONS

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BY 1914

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exercised sovereignty directly over 60 colonies
5.2 mil natives
largest occidental empire since rome

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treaty of Vienna 1815

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established Austria Prussia Russia and GB as the leaders of europe
the ‘four’ should be those to decide the future of all the conquered territories

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-ves for B - A. Smith, Wealth of nations 1937

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colonies imposed heavy and unfair burdens on B taxpayers
distorted the allocation of investable funds
increased threats of war
no profitability of pol corruption at home

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rise of free trade imperialism provided…

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B Econ with profitable outlets for its “surplus” population, capital and commodities

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an attack on imperialism by J. A. HOBSON

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‘costly and ineffective alternative to social reform and as an obstacle to the structural changes required for the future vitality of the b economy

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why needed to happen

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impossible for B to dictate and dominate global trade without its role in international commerce

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by 1913, ?% raw materials processed by the domestic industry came from abroad

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90%

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1860, imports such as imperial wheat, tea, cheese, tin, jute, oil seeds, rubber, non-tropical products

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1/5 emanated from empire

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L. COLLEY

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LONDON ‘league apart from every other EU capital’ - chief trading port, financial centre and trading metropolis

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The EIC, Levant C and Russia C supplied successive Govs with their most

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substantial creditors

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domestic and foreign trade supplied the bulk of

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taxation

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by 1720

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b claimed authority over 1/2 a million men and women in N America, large parts of the WI, coastal settlements in India, outposts in Mediterranean

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1850

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zenith of its power

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problem for peacetime policing of colonies

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land forces insufficient and no technological superiority - 1799, guns, cannons, ammunition accounted for less than 5% of B’s land warfare budget

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AM REV LINK

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some linked causes
Parliaments abortive attempts to tax the colonies to pay for 10K troops to be stationed there
MORESO- early 1770s, only 4500 men available to enforce B rule over the vast expanses of Canada, the 13 colonies, Florida and the W frontier

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start of 19th c customs and excise levies together supplied just over ??% of Gov revenue

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just over 70% … 60%

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at the outset of the seven years war what was Britains most important market

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continental europe

absorb 4/5 of its domestic imports and re-exports, and supplied most of its imports

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imports from the first 1/2 of the century from N. America increase almost ?fold
W.I imports more than
tea from EIC increased more than ?fold 1701-1751

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4 fold
doubled
40 fold

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exports to the colonies grew just as dramatically

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1713 - B merchants shipped out some £32,400 worth of exports to the Carolinas
by 1739 - worth 7 x as more

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??% of the increase in B commodity exports that occurred in the 6 decades after the Act of Union was sold to captive and colonial markets outside of Europe

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95%

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colonial imports vital to B’s B.O.P? WHAT IS B.O.P?

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balance of payments…

as far as EURP trade was concerned

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1750s - re-exports of colonial goods made up a total of ??% of total B exports

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40%

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tumultuous 1760s/1770s

authoritarian turn

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sugar acts 1764 
1765 stamp act
Townshend duties 1767
tea act 1773
intolerable acts 1774
turn from a more permissive commercialist attitude towards the empire in earlier period towards a more coercive and authoritarian policies in wake of 7 years war
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empire after 1780

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characterised by a form of aristocratic military gov supporting a viceregal imperial style which emphasised hierarchy and racial subordination and by the patronage of indigenous landed elites

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battle of plassey 1757

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B defeated Nawah of Bengal and his French allies - left British East I company in control of Bengal and as the major military and political power of India

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Treaty of Paris 1763

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imp consequences for future of b empire
N. america - F’s future as a colonial power effectively ended with the recognition of B claims to Ruperts land - ceding of New France to britain - leave sizeable f speaking pop under B control - Louisiana to Spain

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loss of the 13 colonies -
first to second empire transition
LOSS of at the time B’S MOST POPULOUS OVERSEAS POSSESSION

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1783
relations increasingly strained due to resentment of the British parliament’s attempts to govern and tax American colonists without their consent
‘no taxation without administration’
violated ‘rights of englishmen’ - AM REV began as a rejection of parl authority and move towards self gov
B sent troops to reinforce direct rule - 1775 outbreak of war, US declared independence 1776 akn in Peace of Paris 1783
entry of fr and sp forces into war tipped military balance in AM’s favour
B shift attention away from USA to Asia, pacific, Africa

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1776 Adam Smith wealth of nations

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argued that redundant colonies should adopt free trade to replace old mercantilist policies that had characterised the first period of colonial expansion (protectionism of Spain and Portugal)
and ! the growth of trade between independent America and use after 1783 confirms that pol control not necessary for Econ success

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constitutional act 1791

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created the provinces of U. Canada and L. Canada to diffuse tensions between F and B communities

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1812 war with America after

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B tried to cut off American trade with France and boarded American ships to add them to the Royal Navy - after escalated tensions between B and US after napoleonic wars
1812 US declared war and invaded British Canada, B invaded US
1814 Treaty of Ghent - Canada future sep from US

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Second B empire

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after loss 13 colonies
B gov turned to America
1770 James cook claimed continent for britain and named it NSWALES both islands gained
aussi colonies profitable exporters of wool and gold - gold rushes in Victoria
interaction between indigenous MÃORI pop and europeans limited to the trading of goods

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napoleonic wars 1804-1815

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b challenged again by France - contest of ideologies and threat to invade B
10.5 mil spent on defence - questioned b’s ability to reconstruct their economy
poverty and misery with increased tax rates, high cost of living, high unemployment rates
26K LOST, 194K INJ
benefit only of ‘corrupt’ aristocracy - by female reform soc Manchester, embodied thoughts and sentiments of many ENG

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B GAINS NAP WAR

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GAIN 6 - inc st lucia malta

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decline slavery

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advent of industrial revolution - goods produced by slavery became less important to the b economy
cost of suppressing slave rebellions
slavery abolition act 1809 - full emancipation after a period of 4-6 years of ‘apprenticeship’
B gov cost of compensating slave owners - SLAVERY ABOLITION ACT 1833

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INFORMAL EMPIRE

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from end of NAP WARS

Dom through trade - economies of china, Argentina, siam

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