Essays on British Empire

Year of Wonders is a book about religion, medicine, and how a small village of Eyam, England overcome a dreadful plague. This novel, written by Geraldine Brooks is based on true events, lasting from 1665-1666, a bubonic plague occurred in England. Anna Firth, along with…

Introduction “Well, my beloved, I say we shall not flee like the faithless Israelites!” (Brooks, 103) This was the key moment where Michael Mompellion decides for the village to stay in the tiny village of Eyam in the middle of an outbreak of the bubonic…

Ghosts, paranormal activity, and superstitions are all phenomena that are interesting to the human mind. These phenomena have an interesting origin dating all the way back to the Victorian Era. While some may say the paranormal activity is just a way to distract the human…

British Colonialism was successful in the American culture where there was successful colonization and routing out the establishment and locals for all the European and British colonies. European war was mainly independence. It was not categorized as the war between the British and Americans. It…

Definition of republicanism as offshoot of liberalism. Cause of Great Trek that pointed to liberalism and pointed to and the pursuit of an own republic. The Dutch-speaking colonist movements that was known as “The Great Trek” was migration of the Boer who were travelling across…

Queen Victoria, also called Alexandrina Victoria (1819-1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and self-adopted Empress of India. She inherited the reign from her father, Prince Edward, after her three older brothers all died at a relatively young age, 18….

The introductory readings in this course described how skewed the common vision of the African continent and society is viewed by the general public. What individuals learn from an outside perspective is blatant stereotypes that do not reflect on the historical or cultural values of…

In the 1800s China was plagued by Opium being smuggling into the country from the west, people all over China had become reliant on the drug. As a result the Emperor got his commissioner Lin Tse-Hsü to deal with the opium crisis, they decided to…

London before the great plague London, capital of the United Kingdom, its population (as no census was made of London until the late 1850’s), historians worldwide estimate was surrounding the 300.000 to 400.000 people, by then one of the most populated cities in Europe, apart…

Shakespeare’s plays, Henry V (1599) and Macbeth (1623) have similar, yet different, plots. The play Henry V revolves around a young man (Henry V) who has recently been crowned King of England following his father’s (King Henry the IV) death. The issue is that the…