P6+British+Imperialism

(Maria Vasquez) Emerging Theories: The British imperialism started off as a great state affair that was highly contributing with trade but as time passed it started to collapse. Although it did have a great amount of trade it also had a great down point. The British Empire started to decrease and become weaker during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. One cause of this downfall was the abolishing of slavery in 1807, which would cause a great effect on slavery and in Britain itself. This originated a radical change in the economical perspective due in large part to the influence of Adam smith’s book //The Wealth of Nations,// making trade a free act and minimize the income of the old oligarchies and monopolistic trading corporations. This lead to various colonial movements like for a greater amount of political as well as commercial independence. Over all the British Empire gain its power with trade but different events and ideas like the abolishing of slavery and the radical change on the economical perspective made it cave in. Works cited: Cody, David. “The British Empire.” the Victorian web, 1988. Web. 11 Jan 2013.

(Courtney Laster) Popular view: A popular belief about British Imperialism is that due to the country spreading it's influence all over the world it has created European cultures in area's that would have never been so without their interference. Examples of these are, Australia, Canada, South Africa and of course America. However recent belief believes the empire to have gotten too large. Subjects like imperialism are complex and can be approached from many different angles. In the case of the British Empire the problem is exacerbated by the fact that its death is still too recent to be looked on dispassionately and its legacy too present to be ignored. Works Cited: Porter, Bernard. "Cutting the British Empire down to Size." History Web. 2012. Web. 9 Jan 2012.