Rise and Fall of the British Empire

Economics and Theory of Empire (1x22)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Oca 01, 2009

Throughout the 19th century, advocates of the empire claimed they were bringing progress to backward peoples: the blessings of honest government, Christianity, education, railways, medicine, and commerce. Above all, however, they were making money, and in this lecture you learn about the 19th-century debate over the ethics and economics of empire.