Bibliograph

The British Empire, Ellis Roxburgh

Type

Label

The British Empire, Ellis Roxburgh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The British Empire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Ellis Roxburgh

Series statement

Great empires

Summary

Find out how Britain came to rule around 458 million people around the world and what life was like for the people of these colonies? Discover the key explorers that played a role in the building of the empire, John Cabot, Sir Walter Raleigh and Captain James Cook. And find out about how the British Empire became the Commonwealth of Nations in 1949 and the on-going tensions that resulted in the Falklands War. Each book in this series covers a particular empire or regional series of empires, charting its history from its rise to its eventual fall. Concise text and supporting boxes explore the reasons for the empire's success and its failure and explain the mechanics of governing the empire and the experience of living under it

Table Of Contents

The roots of the empire -- Building the empire -- The height of the empire -- The peoples of the empire -- Life in the empire -- End of the empire -- Timeline

Target audience

juvenile

Classification