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British Empire

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
British Empire overseas territories linked to Great Britain in a variety of constitutional relationships, established over a period of three centuries. The establishment of the empire resulted primarily from commercial and political motives and emigration movements (see imperialism ); its long endurance resulted from British command of the seas and preeminence in international commerce, and from the flexibility of British rule. At its height in the late 19th and early 20th cent., the empire included territories on all continents, comprising about one quarter of the world's population and ... Read more
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British empire. At its apogee, around 1920, the British empire was the greatest—the biggest, at any rate—...what later came to be called the ‘first’ British empire, which came to an end with the rebellion of the thirteen... Read more
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British empire A network of colonies...slave trade brought British merchants to west Africa. The empire was maintained by a...single Cape-to-Cairo British dominion, linked by...the pivot of the whole empire, a dream which faded... Read more

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