Sunday 22 September 2013

LESSON 4 IMPERIALISM

TOMORROW WE CONTINUE LOOKING AT IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM AS A FACTOR IN ADDING TO THE TENSIONS BETWEEN THE GREAT POWERS.  

The Boer War 1899-1901 will feature with the startling fact that Great Britain was the first nation to introduce "concentration camps" as a new method of controlling the enemy.  It is estimated that as a result of starvation, illness and the cold, 28,000 Boer children, women and men died in British Camps.






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