IV: LECTURE AND SEMINAR DATES AND TOPICS:
1. Introduction: the British Empire in contemporary focus.
2. The Pink Bits: the British imperial experience to 1897.
3. The White Man's Burden: strategic and defence considerations 1897-1914.
4. Turbulent Interior: imperialism at home 1897-1914.
5. World War and Empire: 1914-1918.
6. Recalibration: inter-war considerations.
7. World War and Empire: 1939-1945.
8. Socialism and Empire: the Attlee Government 1945-51.
9. Cold War and Empire: years of consensus and contraction 1951-1979.
10. Rhodesia to Hong Kong: contemporary imperialism 1979-1997.
11. Glory and Embarrassment: the historiography of British Imperialism.
12. Conclusion: the balance sheet, economic, political, and cultural.
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