The British Empire

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Using rare film footage and eyewitness accounts British television (BBC) has chronicled the rise and fall of a once vast power of England. India--"the Jewel in the Crown"--was central the British enterprise, and India also provided over a million soldiers in WWI and over 2 million in WWII to allied powers. There were both positive and negative consequences of the Empire: it brought education, technology, law, and democracy to the four corners of the globe. It also brought prejudice, discrimination, cultural bigotry, and racism. Through visuals and documents the course examines the complexities, contradictions, and legacies of the Empire.