Name that Colony
The multiple colonies in this region federated under a single government in the year 1901.
What is Australia
This founder of the DeBeers diamond company and Prime Minister of Cape Town fantasized about building a Cape-to-Cairo railway.
Who was Cecil Rhodes?
These two historians are considered the founders of the Cambridge School of Imperial Historiography, and introduced the idea of "informal empire."
Who were Ronald Robinson and John Gallagher?
1834
What year was slavery was outlawed in the British Empire?
He led the early movement to abolish slavery in the British Empire.
Who was William Wilburforce?
This colony was the site of the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865.
What is Jamaica?
A diagram and model of this ship were used by abolitionists to demonstrate the inhumanity of the slave trade.
What is the Brookes?
This Oxford-educated Trinidadian historian argued that slavery was abolished by Britain because, after the loss of the American colonies, it ceased to be profitable.
Who was Eric Williams?
1857
In what year did the Indian Rebellion take place?
This journalism and author published Imperialism: A Study in 1902, in which he argued that imperialism was a product of capitalism.
Who is J.A. Hobson?
This colony is considered by some historians to be the "laboratory of imperialism," where methods of imperial control, including violent suppression of rebellions, were first trialed before being employed in subsequent years throughout the empire?
What is Ireland?
This British general led a doomed mission into the Sudan and was dubbed "the Hero of Khartoum."
Who was James Gordon?
These two historians introduced the idea of "gentlemanly capitalism" to explain the role of the City of London in shaping imperial policy.
Who are P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins?
1899-1902
This Zulu king resisted British expansion in southern Africa, and famously defeated the British at the Battle of Isandlwana.
Who is Cetshwayo.
In this colony, fierce resistance by indigenous warrior tribes successfully limited British incursions for much of the nineteenth century, before a settlement was finally reached in 1872.
What is New Zealand?
This British Prime Minister was responsible for organizing the British government's acquisition of a controlling interest in the Suez Canal Company.
Who was Benjamin Disraeli?
This historian coined the term "econocide" to describe how the abolition of the still-profitable slave trade in 1807 was an act of economic self-harm.
Who was Seymour Drescher?
1601-1857
During what years did the East India Company operate?
Caught in the Siege of Mafeking during the 2nd Anglo-Boer War, he later went on to found the South African Native National Congress.
Who was Solomon (Sol) Plaatje?
This island colony, originally French, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, was the last territory in the world to be permanently inhabited by humans.
What is Mauritius?
This EIC official founded the city of Singapore and was responsible for significantly expanding Britain's influence in SE Asia in the early 19th century.
Who was Stamford Raffles?
This historian argued that the entire history of the British Empire can be rewritten from the perspective of resistance.
Who is Antoinette Burton?
1978
In what year was Edward Said's Orientalism published?
This Sudanese leader defied British authority, laying siege to Khartoum and eventually capturing it.
Who was the Madhi?