British Imperial Expansion
Introduction & Recap
The Great Game: Britain v Russia
Sikkim and British
Tibet: China and Britain 1720 (Chinese Invasion) -1904 (British Invasion)
Briefest of mentions of Nepal and Bhutan which will be covered in later talk
New References
Empire by Jeremy Paxman
The Honourable Company by John Keay
Democracy finally arrived in Germany in the wake of a Civil War that immediately followed the breakdown after World War One. It arrived in the form of The Weimar Republic (named after the city where
Kaiser Wilhelm II C.Clarke The Sleepwalkers (road to war) C.Clarke Ring of Steel (Germany and Austria at war) A.Watson The Three Emperors M.Carter Berlin (in 20th Century) S.M
Once Bismarck had been dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890, Germany's Foreign Policy took a distinct turn to what, in the end, became the policy of Weltpolitik, that is world politics; the attempt