SCORE Resources on Imperialism
Background Information on the British in
India
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~clday/background.htm
Links to maps, essays and articles
about the British Raj.
Queen Victoria's Empire
http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/
The White Man's Burden and Its Critics
http://www.boondocksnet.com/kipling/index.html
"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/shoot.htm
Orwell's short story about a young officer of the British Raj is a
perfect compliment to our study of imperialism.
The British Empire from the Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/empire/Empire.html
U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines
http://www.boondocksnet.com/
Political cartoons, stereoscopic
images of the Spanish-American War and the Boxer Rebellion, links, etc.
The 19th Century
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook3.html
European Imperialism
http://www.winsor.edu/library/euroimpe.htm
Links to informtion, articles, essays,
and maps on imperialism in India, China, Japan, and other countries.
The British Empire
http://www.edunltd.com/empire/empire.htm
About.Com-Asia in the 19th Century
http://history1800s.about.com/homework/history1800s/cs/asia/index.htm
The Opium Trade
http://history1700s.about.com/homework/history1700s/library/weekly/aa091500a.htm?terms=orient
An
article about the opium trade in Asia and links to information about the
Opium War.
Hong Kong Handover
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9706/hk97/
Video files, documents, a history, and other information relating to
the handover of Hong Kong by Britain to China.
India and Pakistan Independence-50 Years
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/India97/
A history of both India and Pakistan before and after independence
from Great Britain, with sound and video files, maps, documents, and a
special section on Gandhi.
Times of India-Celebrating 50 years of Independence
http://www.tribuneindia.com/50yrs/
British India
http://www.historyofindia.com/hist_text/british.html#quit-ind
Links to Indian Independence
http://www.coimbatore.net/india/frame_second.html
50 Years of Indian Independence
http://www.allindia.com/india50/
Nehru's Speech on Indian Independence
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947nehru1.html
Partition of India
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Part.html
Information, timeline and maps.
India Today
http://www.india-today.com/itoday/18081997/
Photographs of important events in the Indian independence movement,
stories of families separated by partition, information on India today,
essays from important India writers, predictions about India's future,
and other helpful information.