6 videodiscs (1,080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks polychrome digital optical videodisc DVD video file DVD video
Target Audience Note:
Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated
Notes:
Thirty-six lectures (30 minutes each) In three containers Includes bibliographical references in accompanying guidebooks Patrick N. Allitt, lecturer
Contents:
part 1: lecture 1. The sun never set lecture 2. The challenge to Spain in the New World lecture 3. African slavery and the West Indies lecture 4. Imperial beginnings in India lecture 5. Clive and the conquest of India lecture 6. Wolfe and the conquest of Canada lecture 7. The loss of the American colonies lecture 8. Exploring the planet lecture 9. Napoleon challenges the empire lecture 10. The other side of the world lecture 11. Abolition of the slave trade and slavery lecture 12. Early African colonies part 2: lecture 13. China and the opium wars lecture 14. Britain : the imperial center lecture 15. Ireland : the tragic relationship lecture 16. India and the "great game" lecture 17. Rebellion and mutiny in India lecture 18. How Canada became a nation lecture 19. The exploration and settlement of Africa lecture 20. Gold, greed, and geopolitics in Africa lecture 21. The empire in literature lecture 22. Economics and theories of empire lecture 23. The British Empire fights imperial Germany lecture 24. Versailles and the disillusionment part 3: lecture 25. Ireland divided lecture 26. Cricket and the British Empire lecture 27. British India between the World Wars lecture 28. World War II : England alone lecture 29. World War II : the Pyrrhic victory lecture 30. Twilight of the Raj lecture 31. Israel, Egypt, and the Suez Canal lecture 32. The decolonization of Africa lecture 33. The white dominions lecture 34. Britain after the empire lecture 35. Colonial and postcolonial literature lecture 36. Epitaph and legacy
