Submitted by Lollie88 on October 14, 2007

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Colonialisation Up To The First World War

Colonial expansion


The colonial expanion was part of a development that was transforming the economic structure of British capitalism.
In the earlier part of the Nineteenth Century, attention was mainly confined to India. Then came the drive into the hinterland of Canada and Australia and the settlement of New Zealand, and lastly the division of Africa and the Pacific Islands among European Powers.
In 1860 the colonial possession of Britain cocered about 2,500,000 square miles, 1880 the area was 7,700,000 square miles and in 1899 11,600,000. By this date the division of the world among the great colonising Powers was almost complete.
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