British Regency

Killer, entrepreneur, and biased all words that describe Aravind Adiga’s main character in The White Tiger. Balram grow up in the darkness as a boy his father was a rickshaw puller, a poor man. His mother died when he was at a young age and then his father dies in a doctorless government hospital. He then made his way to driver’s school and got a job as Mr. Ashoks driver and begins to make his way into the light. Despite Adiga thinking he has an unbiased scope through Balram, he is biased…

problematic. More specifically, the image of the Scandinavian settlers that expanded into the British Isles in the late 8th century has received much of this treatment. Today, these people are commonly known as ‘Vikings’ and a fair amount of misrepresentation accompanies the term. This stereotype of the Scandinavians paints them as a brutish and uncultured group of people that terrorised the coasts of the British Isles without purpose. Media is perhaps the most susceptible to this image as is…

King George III was born premature on June 4 1738 and died on January 29, 1820 at 81 years. Throughout his life he suffered from a disease called Porphyria which caused him to have temporary lapses in judgement and episodes of insanity. His parents were Frederick Prince of wales, and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. His wife whom he married was Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, she was the queen of Great Britain and Ireland. King George III and his wife Charlotte had ten sons including George Iv and…

inspired awe, mystery, and had a sense of wonder surrounding it. The map of England, the products from England and the way she ate her food in the morning all contribute to her feelings about England. Kincaid begins by describing England in ways the British “favour” to flatter themselves. It is a “special jewel,” “beautiful” and “delicate.” As she is a child, England is presented to her as a mysterious far off land that has an almost magical appeal. It was a “source of myth” and the source…

1. The Industrial Revolution gave rise to new economic needs: raw materials and agricultural products 2. Occasionally with industrial capitalism, more manufactured goods were produced than their people could afford 3. European investors found it more profitable to invest money away from home and at one point Britain was investing about half of its savings around the world 4. Imperialism guaranteed solutions to societies of industrializations class conflicts but eluding revolution and…

Two British explorers, soon follow. In 1862, British explorer John Hanning Speke becomes the first European to visit Buganda. In 1877, members of the British Missionary Society arrive in Buganda, and in 1890, Britain and Germany sign treaty giving Britain rights to what was to become Uganda. Uganda soon becomes a British protectorate, and in 1900 Britain signs agreement with Buganda, giving it autonomy and turning…

Violent Protests in the Frontier *Insert contextualization* Many grievances of the eighteenth century were expressed through violent protests such as the March of the Paxton Boys, Shay’s Rebellion, and the Whiskey Rebellion. The March of the Paxton Boys was a response to Pontiac’s Rebellion by a group of Scots-Irish Pennsylvanian frontiersmen called the Paxton Boys. The Paxton Boys led an attack on the Conestoga Indians, who were a friendly Native American group living on the frontier of…

If American diplomats had not fought battles in foreign courts, American soldiers could not have won the battles they fought at home. Britain’s status as superpower combined with rising power in European nations led to the policy of armed neutrality, which left Britain without any allies. French and Spanish fleets in the New World spread Britain very thin. Essentially, the war became a global conflict, with the only actual fighting happening in North America. Consequently, without its diplomatic…

Imperialism is defined as when a stronger nation dominates a weaker one, socially and economically. As once Edward W said: “Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." Here Edward is trying to say that many nations/countries may want to be the superior and alpha one of another, they say it’s for the better rule and to take away control just to put more control. Europe only…

Just like people, Countries can be very competitive. In the 19th was a time of trying to conquer or imperialize other nations, mostly towards Africa. Before the 19th century, European knew very little about the interior of Africa. But then in the 1800s that change when European explorers pushed their way into the interior of western and central Africa. But by the late 1800s Africa was under full assault as European nations competed with one another for control of the continent. The Driving Force…