Great courses (Compact disc)

Lectures

Professor Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University, delivers thirty-six lectures on the history of the British Empire

Compact discs

In 3 containers (19 cm.)

"Course Number 8480."

Unabridged

Patrick N. Allitt, lecturer

Pt. 1. lecture 1.

Sun never set --

lecture 2.

Challenge to Spain in the New World --

lecture 3.

African slavery and the West Indies --

lecture 4.

Imperial beginnings in India --

lecture 5.

Clive and the conquest of India --

lecture 6.

Wolfe and the conquest of Canada --

lecture 7.

Loss of the American colonies --

lecture 8.

Exploring the planet --

lecture 9.

Napoleon challenges the empire --

lecture 10.

Other side of the world --

lecture 11.

Abolition of the slave trade and slavery --

lecture 12.

Early African colonies

Pt. 2. lecture 13.

China and the opium wars --

lecture 14.

Britain : the imperial center --

lecture 15.

Ireland : the tragic relationship --

lecture 16.

India and the "great game" --

lecture 17.

Rebellion and mutiny in India --

lecture 18.

How Canada became a nation --

lecture 19.

Exploration and settlement of Africa --

lecture 20.

Gold, greed, and geopolitics in Africa --

lecture 21.

Empire in literature --

lecture 22.

Economics and theories of empire --

lecture 23.

British Empire fights imperial Germany --

lecture 24.

Versailles and the disillusionment

Pt. 3. lecture 25.

Ireland divided --

lecture 26.

Cricket and the British Empire --

lecture 27.

British India between the world wars --

lecture 28.

World War II : England alone --

lecture 29.

World War II : the Pyrrhic victory --

lecture 30.

Twilight of the Raj --

lecture 31.

Israel, Egypt, and the Suez Canal --

lecture 32.

Decolonization of Africa --

lecture 33.

White dominions --

lecture 34.

Britain after the empire --

lecture 35.

Colonial and postcolonial literature --

lecture 36.

Epitaph and legacy