as ‘the London of the West Indies’
loyalty to the Empire
New England trade
Pineapple Penny
as a place of exile
silver
slave trade
sugar
urban culture
Washington’s visit
wealth
Barbados Gazette
Barbados Mercury
Barclays Bank
Baring, Sir Francis
Barkley (planned city)
Barnard, Andrew
Barnard, Lady Anne, née Lindsay
View of the Gallows, Cape Town
Barnett, Henrietta
Barre, Israel
Barrow, Charlotte
Barrow, John
Batavian Republic
see also Netherlands/the Dutch
Bath
Batman, John
Bayley, Viola
Bazalgette, Sir Joseph
Beatles
Beausejour, Fort
Beaux Arts school
Beaver
Beckford family
Beckles, Hilary
Beckles family
Belcher, Sir Edward
Bell’s Life
Bengal
army
Asiatick Society of Bengal
East India Company and the Plassey revolution
famine
land ownership
opium
partitioning attempt by Curzon
‘principle of property’
reunification
taxation
trading castes
Treaty of Allahabad, and start of British rulership
Bengal Gazette
Bengal Harkaru
Bengali Renaissance
Benson, A. C.
Bentham, Jeremy
Bentinck, Lord William
Bentley, Thomas
Beresford, John
Berkeley Plantation, Virginia
Berkley, James J.
Best, Tom
Bilbao
Bird, Isabella
Birdwood, Sir George
Birkenhead Iron Works
Birmingham
Handsworth riots
Blaauwberg, Battle of
Black Star Line
Blackburn, Robin
Blackman, John
Blair, Tony
Blankett, John
Blaxton, William
Blue Funnel Line
Boardman, Samuel
Boer War, Second
Bolts, William
Bombay
and the American Civil War
architecture
Armenians
Bank of Bombay
Bhau Daji Lad Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum)
as a business city
change of name to Mumbai see also Mumbai
as ‘City of Gold’
cosmopolitanism/multiculturalism
cotton crash (1865)
cotton trade
Crawford Market (Mahatma Phule Market)
as a cultural driver of the Empire
David Sassoon Mechanics Institute and Library
diseases
and the East India Company
Elphinstone Circle
‘European’ modern city
famine and starvation
Flora Fountain
High Court
Horniman Circle
and the Industrial Revolution
inequalities
Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital
Jews
and Kipling
land speculation and enterprises
languages used in
merchant philanthropists and civic culture
mortality rate
Municipal Act (1865)
Municipal Corporation
Muslims
native town
and the opium trade
Parsis
past changes of name
population growth
and the Portuguese
poverty
public health programme
and the railways
Rajabai Clock Tower
Ramparts Removal Committee
sanitation
School of Art
shopkeeping
St John the Evangelist Church
taxes
and the technological/managerial capacity of British imperialism
trader settlement
Victoria Terminus station
Vihar water project
and the VOC
water supply
wealth
Bombay Builder
Bombay Fort
Bombay House
Bombay Presidency Association
Bombay University
Cowasji Jehangir hall
Library
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Booth, Edwin Carton: Another England
Borneo
Boston
architecture
and Barbados
battle between God and Mammon
and the British royal family coat of arms
and British taxation
civil society
Coercive Acts on
education
emergence from Puritan beginnings
Faneuil Hall
fisheries
Freedom Trail
Grammar School
House of Representatives
literary culture
Massacre
Museum of Fine Arts
newspapers
origins
Parliamentary Charter
Pope’s Day
and the Protestant succession
and the Puritans/Puritan ethos
royalism
ship building
slave population
and the Stuarts
sugar
Tea-Party
tea boycott
traces of British imperial identity
trade and economy
urbanization and urban fabric
West Indies trade
Boston Caucus
Boston Historical Society exhibition
Bougrenet de Latocnaye, Jacques Louis de
Bourke, Sir Richard
Bowring, Sir John
Boylan, Mr
Boyle, Danny: Slumdog Millionaire
Boylstone, Nick
Boyne, Battle of the
Brabazon, Lord
Brazil
sugar
Bremer, Sir J. G.
Brewer, James
Bridgeman, Elijah C.
Bridgetown
adoption of English names in
and Barbadian slaves
and Barbadian sugar
Cage
as Caribbean hub
Charles Fort
Cheapside
civil society
development of export economy structures
as Empire’s dominant trading and cultural centre in West Indies
foundation and building of
House of Assembly
infrastructure
James Fort
population in the, 1740s
prostitution and brothels
theatre
tourism
Trafalgar Square and Nelson’s statue
twenty-first century
urban culture
Washington’s visit
Bristol
Britannia, Royal Yacht
‘Britannic Nationalism’
British Architect
British army
and the Second Boer War
British Commonwealth see Commonwealth
British Empire
Act of Union between England and Scotland
Ancient Monuments Bill
Anglo-French wars
and the Anglo-Saxon ‘crimson thread of kinship’
Asiatick Society of Bengal as vehicle for British officials
battle for supremac
y against French and other European empires see also Dutch Empire; French Empire; Spanish Empire
vs Bourbon France
Britain’s becoming the Empire in India
Britain’s industrialization and the slave trade
British Nationality Act
British understanding in eighteenth century of America’s place in
Caribbean as ‘hub’ of see also Barbados; Bridgetown
ceramics
Coercive Acts
Colonial Office
and the ‘colonization of taste’
continuing colonial influence
and cricket
Crown as connecting hub of
and the cult of the Home
Declaratory Act of, 1720 (Dependency of Ireland on Great Britain Act)
Declaratory Act of, 1766 (American Colonies Act)
decolonization
Dominion status within
and the East India Company see East India Company
eighteenth-century characteristics
eighteenth-century wars
Empire Day
Empire Marketing Board
exhibitions
expansion after loss of Boston
expansion through Caribbean plantation funds
expansion during last quarter of nineteenth century
expansion in territorial extent between, 1860 and, 1909
expansion with Versailles peace talks
fall of the Raj and decline of the Empire
Ferguson’s view of
First Empire of Thirteen Colonies
First World War
Franco-British Peace of Paris
Great Reform Act (1832)
and the handing back of Hong Kong to China
Imperial Economic Committee
and imperialism see British imperialism
India Act (1784)
Indian Councils Act
Indian trade see Indian trade, and the British Empire
‘informal empire’ of free trade
Ireland’s complex relationship
Irish Mutiny Act
Liverpool and the end of the Empire
Mau Mau Rebellion
Municipal Corporations Act (1835)
Navigation Acts
nostalgia for
opium trade see opium trade
oppressive shift in New England
plantation ‘mercantile-financial complex’
Poynings’ Law
Protestant problem with Irish Catholics
and the Protestant vision see also Protestantism; Puritans
public debate on legacies and meaning
Reciprocity of Duties Bill
Revenue Act (1767) see also Townshend duties
and the Second Boer War
Second World War
Seeley’s view of
seventeenth-century characteristics
Sino-British relations see Sino-British relations
and the slave trade see slave trade/slavery
Stamp Act see Stamp Act
Sterling Area
and sugar see sugar
taxation see taxation, colonial
Tea Act see also tea
trade as an ‘Additional Empire’ (Addison)
Treaty of Allahabad, and start of British rulership in Bengal
urbanism as legacy of
and the wealth of the West Indies
British imperialism
and the Anglo-Saxon ‘crimson thread of kinship’
and architecture see architecture
battle for colonial supremacy against French and other Europeans see also Dutch Empire; French Empire; Spanish Empire
‘Birmingham school’ of state intervention
Bombay and the technological/managerial capacity of
‘Britannic Nationalism’
and ceremony
Coercive Acts
communal endeavour
despotic trend with Asian dealings
Durbar imperialism
‘Eastern Question’
and an eighteenth-century vision of Britain
and free trade
gunboat diplomacy
Imperial Act (1876)
Imperial Economic Committee
imperial federation ambition (Chamberlain)
imperial loyalty
imperial nostalgia
imposition of ‘order, progress and freedom within the law’
Ireland’s transformation from problem to partner in
and missionary work
negative aspect overview
‘ornamentalism’ strategy
‘purifying’ imperialism
and racial bigotry or kinship
and the Reciprocity of Duties Bill
as as struggle against Catholicism
taxation see taxation, colonial
as transformer of British identity
British Nationality Act
Brixton
Broich, John
brothels, Bridgetown
Bruning, Joseph
Brunswick
bubonic plague
Buchan, John
Buckingham, James Silk
Buist, George
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert, 1st Earl of Lytton
Bulwer-Lytton, Lady Emily
Burchell, William J.
Burke, Edmund
Burma
Burnaby, Andrew
Burslem
Bush, George W.
Butler, Sir Montagu
Butterfield, William, St Paul’s Cathedral
Buxar, Battle of
Byng, John
Byron, Robert
Calcutta
architecture
and the Bengali Renaissance
Black Hole prison
‘Black Town’
British modernization
churches
Clive of India’s retaking of
College of Fort William
cosmopolitanism/multiculturalism
decline
development plan (2011) to become ‘another London’
and the East India Company
economy
Fort William
Fort William College
Government House
grandeur of ‘City of Palaces’
growth
High Society
Hindu College
Madrassa
Muslim community
Ochterlony Monument, now Shaheed Minar
oriental
political attrition over
printing industry
renamed as Kolkata
sanitation
Sanskrit College
Siraj-ud-Daula’s capture of
sugar mill industry
Town Improvement Committee
transfer of India’s capital from
Victoria Memorial
and Wellesley
‘White Town’
Writers’ Building of East India Company
Calcutta, HMS
Calcutta Book Society
Calcutta Gazette
Calcutta General Advertiser
Calvinism
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cammell Laird
Campbell, John
Campbell, Mr (Boston book-seller)
Canada
Canberra
Cannadine, David
Canton
Second Opium War invasion
Canton Register
Cape of Good Hope/Cape Colony
and the British East India Company
British first capture
British recapture
British settlement in
Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa
Castle of Good Hope
character under British management
and Dundas see Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville
and the Dutch
and the Dutch East India Company see Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC)
and the French Revolutionary Wars
Islam
Khoe-San see Khoe-San (‘Bushmen’/Hottentots)
and the Royal Navy
slavery
temporary return of Cape Colony to the Dutch (1802)
Cape Town
architecture
batteries
British capture
Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa
Castle of Good Hope
civil society
colonial branding of modern city, and backlash
Company Gardens
cosmopolitanism/multiculturalism
cultural Anglicization
domestic gardens
and Dundas see Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville
Eurocentricity
fresh produce
Government House
Groote Kerk
growth as a staging post
Islam
Kaapstad and the Dutch
Latin School
mosques
Old Town House
port economy
Slave Lodge
slaves
society under the British
and Somerset
strategic significance in Empire
surrender of, 1802 to the British
theatre
and Wellesley
capitalism
destructive power of
Hong Kong
and Protestantism
and the slave trade see also slave trade/slavery
Captain, HMS
Carib Indians
Caribbean see West Indies and the Caribbean
Carlisle, James Hay, 1st Earl of
Carlyle, Thomas
Carr, Patrick
Cartagena
Carter, Charles Rooking
Carter, Edwin
Carter, Mary
Cassels, Richard
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount
Catherine of Braganza
Catholicism see Roman Catholicism
ceramics
Ceylon
Chadwick, Edwin
Chamberlain, Joseph
imperial federation ambition
Champion, George
Chandernagore
Charbourough House, Dorset
Charlemont House, Dublin
Charles I
Charles II
Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles Cammell and Co.
Charlestown
Charnock, Job
‘Charter Cities’
Chatham, William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of
Chatterjee, Partha
Chaudhuri, Amit
Cheese, Michael
Chinese-British relations see Sino-British relations
Chinese Christian mission
Chinese Qing Empire
Chinsura
Chintu (Chengdu)
cholera
Christian mission, China
Chuan-pi Convention
Church of England
see also Anglican Church
Churchill, Winston
Chushan
civil society
Bombay’s merchant philanthropists and civic culture
Boston
Bridgetown
Cape Town
Dublin
Hong Kong
and the Irish Protestant Ascendancy
Clarence, Prince William Henry, Duke of
Clarke, Gedney Snr
Clarke, Nancy, later Nancy Collins
Clarke, William
Clemenceau, Georges
Clerk, John James
Clive, Robert, 1st Baron (Clive of India)
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