... welcomed without reserve, and potential newcomers from the Caribbean and elsewhere soon became aware of pressing needs of labor market in the united kingdom. However the appeal for new workers was primarily aimed at white Europeans people who had all gained immigration to Britain during the century ... be anything but free. Early in the eighteenth century, the political map of European changed and Britain or as it had now become United Kingdom, gained more access to the New World and its resources and riches. But for the last six years, the home office has argued that ... , when the first...

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... Gladstone and his anti-expansionist policy being manipulated and circumvented under external pressure. German expansion in eastern Africa prompts British annexation of The Buganda Kingdom, which will become Uganda and Kenya and builds a close relationship with Zanzibar at the same time Goldie is making progress in Nigeria. The ... p. 239). Rosebery shared Salisbury interest in Uganda and also pushed for the building of the railway and a governmental take over of the Buganda Kingdom when the company failed in 1895. The railway was eventually built when Joseph Chamberlain came into power ...

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... Gladstone and his anti-expansionist policy being manipulated and circumvented under external pressure. German expansion in eastern Africa prompts British annexation of The Buganda Kingdom, which will become Uganda and Kenya and builds a close relationship with Zanzibar at the same time Goldie is making progress in Nigeria. The ... p. 239). Rosebery shared Salisbury interest in Uganda and also pushed for the building of the railway and a governmental take over of the Buganda Kingdom when the company failed in 1895. The railway was eventually built when Joseph Chamberlain came into power ...

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... . This shows Canada growing as an independent nation because it is seen fighting for their wants and needs. The Balfour Report, from the 1926 Imperial Conference, declared that the United Kingdom and its dominions are all independent communities within the British empire with equal statuses, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations. This is one of the ... for this is seen by the short amount of time it took to obtain all of this. The Statute of Westminster is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made the recommendations of the Balfour Report ...

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... powerhouse was in danger of being out spent. The Reichstag found it nearly impossible for an effective leader to pass a bill for sufficient increase to their military spending. The United Kingdom had the biggest navy in the world; the German aim was to build a fleet that would be two thirds the size of the British navy. The threat of a British blockade ... with Germany's 29.  Although the naval race as such was abandoned by the Germans before the war broke out, it had been one of the chief factors in the United Kingdom joining the Triple Entente, and therefore important in the format...

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... he name many more benefits in less depth. In the reasons and benefits swift gives some well calculated figures that appear to be facts. The number of souls in the kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there be about two hundred thousand couples whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are ... able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many under the present distress of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and twenty thousand children of poor pare...

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... of China, ending its 155 years as a possession of the British Crown. The catalyst for the decision to return Hong Kong was the impending expiry in 1997 of the United Kingdom's 99-year lease on the New Territories, part of the mainland bordering the Hong Kong islands acquired in 1898. Hong Kong itself, ceded to the British in 1842 during the ... risks Hong Kong might face after 1997, and many residents began looking to make new lives abroad, or at least to obtain alternative passports in case of trouble. The United Kingdom, however, refused to give citizenship rights to the majority of i...

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... Company was able to annex a number of kingdoms, and princes were denied the right to adoption, so if they died with no biological son to take the throne of their kingdom, the company would annex it (India Netzone). Along with kingdoms being annexed, many people's personal property was taken away when they couldn't provide titles because they had acquired it by ... ...

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The British Empire is the name assigned to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its former dominions, colonies and other territories that were under the dominion of the British Crown between the end of the 16th and ... ...

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... during the same period) he remarked: "Though I am a Chingala [Sinhala-Sri Lankan] by blood I am a Portuguese in my ways and affections. This is the chief reason for losing my Kingdom, my treasures, the Queen my wife, my son, and all that I possessed." He later wrote "I have no confidence in my own people." (3) Paul E. Peiris, a noted historian and ... ...

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... should be a repeal of the Stamp Act and why it was unjust for colonists. The first reason being "inherent rights and liberties of his natural born subjects within the kingdom of Great Britain" meaning that the people of America shall be granted the same rights of those in the country ruling them. Another reason was that "no taxes ... ...

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... were precisely what the settlers did not want and they were greeted with suspicion in colonies like Kenya and Northern Rhodesia where the white settlers hoped to win the political kingdom. A shattering blow to settler political expectation was dealt in 1929 with the publication of the MEMORANDUM ON NATIVE POLICY IN EAST AFRICA, drawn up by the Colonial Secretary which restated ... ...

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... North America, but due to certain casualties Britain was forced to stop the privileged treatment of free trade. These casualties were because of increase trade, population growth in the United Kingdom and potato famine in Ireland, that all led to reduction of duties and low-priced products. This loss from Britain reduced Canada to economic depression. The industries that were hit ... ...

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... was sent to deal with Masharaja Ranjit Singh. Famous for his harem, his opium addiction and his possession of the Koh-i-noor diamond, the one-eyed Singh had established a powerful kingdom among the warlike Sikhs, which was guarded by a well-trained army led by European mercenaries. Yet somehow, in an unexpected development that was to become one of the most moving ... ...

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... basic constitutional framework for the Canadian federal state, but power to amend the act was still vested in the British Parliament. "The BNA Act is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament and can therefore be directly amended only by that Parliament." Gradually, however, executive power shifted from the British governor general to the Canadian prime minister and his cabinet. Canada ... ...

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... , and the Spanish assertion of dominion in these seas by "right of discovery and papal edict" feel on deaf ears. Cromwell, believing that he was "enlarging the bounds of Christ's kingdom", personally ordered the seizure of the most lightly defended of Spain's possessions on December 26th, 1654. Though Jamaica was not as large or good a commercial prospect as the Spanish possession ... ...

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... making until the 1930s. Blast furnace operation enhanced the efficiency of pig iron production. Newer steel works modernised their blast furnaces, whilst Britain continued with acid steel making. Years United Kingdom Germany France U.S.A 1890 3,579 2,195 670 4,275 1896 4,133 4,745 1,160 5,282 1900 4,901 6,260 1,540 10,188 Steel Production (In thousands of tons) (3) The table graphically illustrates that although ... ...

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... in the history of mankind so far. World War One, then entitled the Great War, set off as a result of a disagreement between the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbia. To the outsider, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, appeared to be the cause of the events that led to a European and, ultimately ... ...

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... intermediary regime between peace and war, "armed peace-. Two main alliances were created between European countries: the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy) and the Triple Entente (France, Russia, United Kingdom). August 1st, 1914, the war was officially declared in response to the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand. The war lasted 4 years and ended on November 11th, 1918, with ... ...

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... countries. These groups have regularly praised the conduct of blatantly fraudulent electoral practices. It is no wonder; therefore, that they have complacently let through legislation that could undermine the United Kingdom's claim to have had an exemplary electoral system over the past 150 years. The present government may well be right to anticipate another landslide general election victory which will swamp ... ...

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