British+Imperialism

Mitchell Arnone
 * Popular Attitude**

The normal/popular view of the people was to support the expansion of the British Empire. The people thought, and the empire helped to influence this, that they were better then any other country in the world. That every country should be under the control of the civilized British Empire. This is what helped the British Empire through its years. The empire had the support of its people behind them, the white people that thought themselves better then the world. "These number a little more than the odd 60 millions; so that on the most favourable view 400 millions of variously coloured peoples are subjected beneath the rule of 60 millions---mostly living at other ends of the earth" (Jackson). This shows how the British saw themselves during the time of being an empire. Better than any other race even if the other races outnumbered them.

Jackson T.A.. "The British Empire." //The British Empire//. The Communist Party of Great Britain, 2007. Web. 11 Jan 2013.

Scott Phillips
 * Radical Thoughts**

Belief existed at the time and still somewhat today that the British Empire through major imperialism were part of creating a "New World Order" in which a group of people were to have, or are currently, ruling the world and controlling the Earth's finances and resources. This is one way it supposedly worked, "For Rhodes and Carnegie, it was British rule expanded to cover the earth, or at least British influence through English-speaking countries to organize the rest of world according to the English way of life and thinking" (Piccone). Although since the idea is so unsubstantiated by evidence, there is an enormous amount of differing opinions of the role the British Empire plays in the New World Order and how such an organization would go about ruling over the world. Key points are that the imperialism stage that the British Empire underwent was part of a world power gaining plan for the NWO and was supported by other major countries which Britain ironically left completely alone.

Piccone, Tom. "Citizine - Whose New World Order? Andrew Carnegie, H.G. Wells, Cecil Rhodes." Citizine - Whose New World Order? Andrew Carnegie, H.G. Wells, Cecil Rhodes. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2013.

Dominique De La Rosa
 * Emerging Theories**

The British Empire was one of the most looked at empires in history. At the it's highest point, it was known as the largest empire in history. Today, some people view British Imperialism as bad period of time. British Imperialism meant that the British were in control of inferior countries, " dominions, colonies, dependencies, trust territories, and protectorates" (Farlex). Britain had the money and the military to be able to do such a thing as to take over other countries such as India, Australia, New Zealand, and more. At one point, the empire almost took up about a quarter of the world. All of the countries that were taken over by British Imperialism were affected, but one of the country's that felt the most impact was India. As the British took over India, the British stole their dignity and culture, making the people of India to be slaves to the British.

Work Cited: "British Imperialism." //The Free Dictionary.// Farlex, n.d. Web. 10 Jan 2013. **British Imperialism: Current Beliefs** Celina Robles The British Imperialism was a successfully empire that was rapidly growing. A great part to the British success was their ideas on, “ongoing competition for resources and markets” (Cody 1). The British empire was all about trade and marketing everywhere they could. They believed that the more they expanded their business, “resources and markets” the more they were able to conquer. A lot of the imperialist policies made it easy buy and conquer as much land possible. The theory of monopolies was very important to them because they believed that it was the way to wealth, which would allow the empire to continually grow. Ultimately the British empire saw that the more their markets expanded so did the amount of territory which led to more power. The British wanted to be powerful and superior.

Work Cited

Cody, David. “The British Empire”. The Victorian Web. Hartwick College, Nov. 2000. Web. 11 Jan. 2013.