1 online resource (streaming video file) (60 min.)
Series
World history in video
Summary
Simon Schama looks at how the liberal politics and free-market economics of the British Empire in the 19th century unravelled, leading to the potato famine in Ireland and mutiny in India. By the early 20th century, nationalist movements around the globe had turned their back on the British 'workshop of the world'
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Title from resource description page (viewed May 27, 2015)
