QUEEN VICTORIA 1837-1901
-Was a model of femininity: VICTORIAN VALUES and family
life values with PRINCE ALBERT and their children.
-Social obsession with the monarchy private life
-Jane Austen age
-Gender roles (bussiness...) -> WOMEN'S RIGHTS 1870
BRITISH EMPIRE. The expansion started with Henry II.
The expansion began with WALES (11th and 12th centuries) ,
SCOTLAND (17 and 18 centuries)
IMPERIALISM -> COLONIALISM -> a period consequence of
imperialism -> implantation of settlements on distant
territories, which were sources of wealth. As a result, over
40 countries have English as the first or co-official language.
(p.47).
EXPANSION AT A WIDER SCALE: US
(1607-1776) COLONIAL PERIOD. They renamed some countries
(New York, Jersey, Zealand...)
CARIBBEAN: early incursions brought slaves from Guinea. Thay
are now independent territories.
IRELAND: The expansion was a longer process, which gave
Britain a high amount of wealth.
INDIA AND PAKISTAN
SOUTH ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST
AFRICAN TERRITORIES. A lot of countries in Europe were trying
to get a part from Africa. (Fr,Ita,Germ, UK, Spain, Portugal...)
around 15th century. 16th SLAVES TRAFFICKING from Africa to
bring them to the Americas. They were free workers. Mostly
western Africans.
-FIRST BRITISH COLONY WAS SIERRA LEONE (1787).
Filántropos. Most of their slaves came from here.
