The World's First Superpower: The Rise of the British Empire From 1497 to 1901
The World's First Superpower: The Rise of the British Empire From 1497 to 1901 by Denis Judd
Publisher: Recorded Books / The Modern Scholar (2004) | ISBN: 1428184430 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/80 kbps | 265 MB
Publisher: Recorded Books / The Modern Scholar (2004) | ISBN: 1428184430 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/80 kbps | 265 MB
This course will examine the growth and development of the largest empire in world history—the British Empire—beginning with the late fifteenth century Tudor dynasty in England and ending with the death of the Queen-Empress Victoria in 1901. By the beginning of the twentieth century, there were very few countries or people who had not been affected, one way or another, by the impact of the British. The Empire itself by then covered over a quarter of the world’s land surface, the Royal Navy dominated the oceans, and one in every four human beings lived under British rule.
Yet despite all of this global power and the emergence of Britain by the beginning of the nineteenth century as the world’s first true superpower, the British Empire had very humble, small-scale origins.
14 lectures on 7 compact discs
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The World's First Superpower: The Rise of the British Empire From 1497 to 1901
