Tài liệu Part 2- Britain docx

Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. [...]... similar to the monarch's in Britain itself Because India w as so rar aw ay, and the journey from Britain too k so lo ng , these British officials spe nt most of the ir working lives there and so developed a di stinctly Anglo-Indian w ay of life They im posed British ins titutions and met ho ds o f governm ent on the country, and returned to Britain when they retired Large parts of Africa also belonged... rule is suppressed Its leaders are execut ed 1 91 4- The right to vote is extended to include women over the age of thiny 19 18 Britain declares wa r on Germ any Un til the 19+OS the First Wo rld War was known in Britain as 't he Great War' 19 20 The British government partitions Ireland Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 27 28 2 History The White M an 's... lished freel y 17 8 2 James Watt invent s the first steam engine 1] 83 After a war , Britain recogn izes the ind e pendence of the Ame rican colo nies Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark The eighteenth century inhabi tants o f the highla nd s were killed o r sent awa y fro m Britain and the wearing o f hi ghland dress (the tartan kilt) wa s banned The Celtic... government posts and become MPs 180 0 The separate Irish Parliament is closed and the United Kingd om of Great Britain and Ireland is formed Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 2 r; 26 2 History The nineteenth cent ury Not lo ng before thi s cen tury began , Britain had lo st its most important American colonies in a war of independence When the century began, the... r with France, during which an invas ion by a French army was a real possib ility Soon after the end of the cen tury, Britain co ntrolled the biggest empire th e world had eve r seen (see chapte r J 2) One section o f this emp ire w as Ireland During this cent ury it was, in fact, part of the UK itself, and it wa s durin g thi s cent ur y that th e British cultur e and way of life came to predomin... their first language Another part of the empire was made up of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where settlers from the British Isles formed th e majority of the population These countries had complete internal self-go vern m en t but recognized the overall authority of the British government Anot her was India, an enormous co untry w ith a culture more ancient than Britain' s Tens of thou sands of... late 1 6 7 0 S and allegiance to one side or the other was more ofien the result of fam ily or region al loyalty than of political beliefs This could be said , however, to be the beginning of the party system in Britain (see chapter 6) The mod ern system o f an annual budge t drawn tip by the mo narch's Treasury officials for the approval o fParliamcnt was established during this century So, too , was... Welsh Parliament at Westm inster in Lo ndon However, Sco tland retaine d its own system of law , more sim ilar to co ntinental European systems than to that of England It does so to this day The only part of Britain to change radically as a result of poli tical forces in this century was the highlands area of Scotland This area twi ce supported failed attem pts to put a (Catholic) Stuart monarch back on... watermark The twe ntiet h century The twentieth century By the beginning o f thi s cent ury , Britain w as no longer the world's richest count ry Perhaps thi s caused Victo rian confidence in gradual reform to weaken W hatever the reason , the first twent y yea rs o f the ce ntury w ere a pe rio d o f ex trem ism in Britain The Suffrage ttes women demanding the right to vote, w ere pr epared bo th to dam... y fro m Britain and the wearing o f hi ghland dress (the tartan kilt) wa s banned The Celtic w ay of life w as effectively destro yed It was cultural chan ge tha t w as m ost ma rked in this century Britain grad ually expanded its em pire in the Ame ricas along the west African coa st and in Indi a The in creased trade w h ich resulted fro m the links w ith the se new marke ts was one factor wh ich