Colonial and Expansion of Britian 英文殖民文化论文.docVIP

a paper for british-american society and culturecolonial and expansion of britian summary:there are threes parts to introduce the colonial and expansion of britian.they are the reason, the colony and the influence. the main reason is that britist economy became stronger and stronger. for the colony , there are parted into four periods.they are 17th century,18th century,19th century and 20th century. for the influence , there are some good results for the europe.colonial and expansion of britian from 16 century to the early 20th century, british colonialist began the aggression and expandsion.britain is the biggest colonial countries, and its colonies had spread all over the world. colonial expansion of british for world history, geographical and political evolution has greatly influenced.and it was a very important fraction for the history of britian. the reason from 16th century to 20th century, commercial capital played a leading role. the economy grown quickly,especially the two revolutions. at the same time ,commercial capitalists become the main drivers of colonial expansion. colonial plunder usually carried on by the trading company which were awarded privilege form the government. when portugal, spain the two old colonial countries dominate sea, east of north america by rare became britains earliest colonial activity areas. the colony the 17th century 20 the 30s, britain has seized west indies places one after another such as st. kitts, and then ,turned the islands into plantation, the base for trading slaves and the place where pirates appeared and disappeared in the 18th century, britain started with france to compete colonizes and hegemony.during 16891763 years, both countries have had 4 wars, each time came to an end by britains victory. britains colony increased greatly. in 1713, new si keshe the peninsula, the new foundland and the hudson river coast, west was gibraltar and the maynor card island even extension turns over to britain. specially as a result of seven year wars victory, britain not only captured east of canadian and mississippi rivers complete territory, but also captured grenada, st. vincent, dominican, tobagan and africas senegal. spains florida has also given britain. in the mid-19th century, started two times to invade chinas opium war, and participated to suppress the revolution of chinese taiping heavenly kingdom ; suppress 18571859 year indian nationality big revolt, and strengthened to contorl india. in 1876, conservative party b. di si leili gave the cabinet for queen victoria the coronation, and caused it to become the indian empress. hereafter britain was called great britain (or british empire). in addition, in places such as iran, burma, south africa, egypt, east africa as well as new zealand, australia also expandsed the aggression, but also carried on the seepage gradually to the south america, and becomed the biggest investor. in 1867, canada became the first autonomous of british. the late of 19th century to the early of 20th century, the emphasis britain colonized shift africa. it had captured the domination of the suez canal, then seized egypt (1882) and sudan (1899). british participated positively to the contest and colonize the big powers to carve up the west africa, east africa and central africas, and attended berlin conference which 18841885 year big powers divide the booty (18841885). in order to realize construction which became one element of imperialist ,c.j. rhodes proposed from cape town to cairo to go through vertically the african continent big railroads so-called two c plans (cape town and the cairos english mode of writing first letter is “c”), steped up to invade south africa. in 1899 ,erupted into the war, britain annexed orange and delanshiwa. 19th centurys ends, control burma, afghanistan in asia, in 1900 participated to suppress china boxer movement, and bribed chinas tibet. up to 1914, britains colony had blazoned world various continents, the colony planimeter amounts to 33,500,000 square kilometers, the colony population reaches 394,000,000, is in the world the biggest colonial empire. the influence from the whole western europe, capitalism obtained large-scale development since the sixteenth century .a key reason is the success of overseas colonization. in fact, through military plunder, unequal trade and forced labor exploitation in other parts of the world were an indispensable condition for the growth of capitalism in western europe .before the exploitation of mature capitalism in western europe, provided a wealth for western europe, constituted an important source of capital accumulation. the plundering of foreign gold and silver currency had strengthened the economy of western europe, provided a convenient condition for other forms of primitive accumulation. in addition, the conquest of foreign land to western europe increased the supply of food and industrial raw materials, as well