Pt. 1. lecture 1. The sun never set
lecture 2. The 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. The loss of the American colonies
lecture 8. Exploring the planet
lecture 9. Napoleon challenges the empire
lecture 10. The 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. The exploration and settlement of Africa
lecture 20. Gold, greed, and geopolitics in Africa
lecture 21. The empire in literature
lecture 22. Economics and theories of empire
lecture 23. The 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. The decolonization of Africa
lecture 33. The white dominions
lecture 34. Britain after the empire
lecture 35. Colonial and postcolonial literature
lecture 36. Epitaph and legacy.
