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Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace", modelled after Pax Romana) was the period of relative peace in Europe and the world (1815–1914) during which the British Empire became the global hegemonic power and adopted the role of a global police force.
Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain's "imperial century," around 10,000,000 square miles (26,000,000 km2) of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire. Victory over Napoleonic France left the British without any serious international rival, other than perhaps Russia in central Asia. When Russia acted aggressively in the 1850s, the British and French defeated it in the Crimean War (1854–56), thereby protecting the by-then feeble Ottoman Empire.
Britain's Royal Navy controlled most of the key maritime trade routes and enjoyed unchallenged sea power. Alongside the formal control it exerted over its own colonies, Britain's dominant position in world trade meant that it effectively controlled access to many regions, such as Asia and Latin America. British merchants, shippers and bankers had such an overwhelming advantage over everyone else that in addition to its colonies it had an "informal empire".
Ian Scott Anderson, MBE (born 10 August 1947) is a Scottish-born musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as the lead vocalist, flautist and acoustic guitarist of British rock band Jethro Tull. Anderson plays several other musical instruments, including keyboards, bass guitar, bouzouki, balalaika, saxophone, harmonica, and a variety of whistles. His solo work began with the 1983 album Walk into Light, and since then he has released another five works, including the sequel of Jethro Tull album Thick as a Brick (1972) in 2012, entitled Thick as a Brick 2.
Ian Anderson was born the youngest of three siblings. His father, James Anderson, ran the RSA Boiler Fluid Company in East Port, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Anderson spent the first part of his childhood in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was influenced by his father's big band and jazz records and the emergence of rock music, though disenchanted with the "show biz" style of early American rock and roll stars like Elvis Presley.
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. At its height, it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world's population at the time, and covered more than 13,000,000 sq mi (33,670,000 km2), almost a quarter of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its political, legal, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, the phrase "the empire on which the sun never sets" was often used to describe the British Empire, because its expanse around the globe meant that the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories.
During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious of the great wealth these empires generated, England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonies and trade networks of their own in the Americas and Asia. A series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left England (and then, following union between England and Scotland in 1707, Great Britain) the dominant colonial power in North America and India.
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In the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria has recently celebrated her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam the skies, robot bobbies enforce the law and dinosaurs are on display in London zoo. Welcome to the steam driven world of Magna Britannia!
Pax Britannica was the period of relative peace in Europe and the world during which the British Empire became the global hegemon and adopted the role of global policeman. Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain's "imperial century," around 10,000,000 square miles of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire. Victory over Napoleonic France left the British without any serious international rival, other than perhaps Russia in central Asia. When Russia acted aggressively in the 1850s, the British and French defeated it in the Crimean War, thereby protecting the by then feeble Ottoman Empire. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video
This episode of Ten Minute History (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the growth of the British Empire after the American Revolution all the way to its end with the handover of Hong Kong. The first half deals with the Pax Britannica and British global hegemony through the Sepoy mutiny. The second half deals with the apex of the empire after World War One and its subsequent decline and fall. Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.
A tribute to the Steampunk world of 'Pax Britannia'; authors Jonathan Green, Al Ewing (and David Thomas Moore) but...most of all....Ulysses Quicksilver; Dandy, adventurer and agent of the crown. Music is THE NEW DEVICE by SYNTHONYM (2009) http://www.reverbnation.com/synthonym http://vampirefreaks.com/Synthonym
Provided to YouTube by Essential Music and Marketing Ltd The Pax Britannica · Ian Anderson Homo Erraticus ℗ 2014 The Ian Anderson Group Of Companies / Calliandra Records Under Exclusive Licence To Snapper Music Plc ℗ Ian Anderson Released on: 2014-03-11 Artist: Ian Anderson Auto-generated by YouTube.
A promotional video for the Pax Britannia series of books created especially for the UK Games Expo 2011.
My first video log! Here I talk about the latest Pax Britannia releases from Abaddon Books, namely The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus, and Dark Side. You can find out more about these books here... www.JonathanGreenAuthor.com or here www.PaxBritannia.com
A promotional video for Pax Britannia: Dark Side, published October 2010 by Abaddon Books. To find out more, visit www.PaxBritannia.com, or www.JonathanGreenAuthor.com.
In the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria has recently celebrated her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam the skies, robot bobbies enforce the law and dinosaurs are on display in London zoo. Welcome to the steam driven world of Magna Britannia!
Pax Britannica was the period of relative peace in Europe and the world during which the British Empire became the global hegemon and adopted the role of global policeman. Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain's "imperial century," around 10,000,000 square miles of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire. Victory over Napoleonic France left the British without any serious international rival, other than perhaps Russia in central Asia. When Russia acted aggressively in the 1850s, the British and French defeated it in the Crimean War, thereby protecting the by then feeble Ottoman Empire. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video
This episode of Ten Minute History (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the growth of the British Empire after the American Revolution all the way to its end with the handover of Hong Kong. The first half deals with the Pax Britannica and British global hegemony through the Sepoy mutiny. The second half deals with the apex of the empire after World War One and its subsequent decline and fall. Ten Minute History is a series of short, ten minute animated narrative documentaries that are designed as revision refreshers or simple introductions to a topic. Please note that these are not meant to be comprehensive and there's a lot of stuff I couldn't fit into the episodes that I would have liked to. Thank you for watching, though, it's always appreciated.
A tribute to the Steampunk world of 'Pax Britannia'; authors Jonathan Green, Al Ewing (and David Thomas Moore) but...most of all....Ulysses Quicksilver; Dandy, adventurer and agent of the crown. Music is THE NEW DEVICE by SYNTHONYM (2009) http://www.reverbnation.com/synthonym http://vampirefreaks.com/Synthonym
Provided to YouTube by Essential Music and Marketing Ltd The Pax Britannica · Ian Anderson Homo Erraticus ℗ 2014 The Ian Anderson Group Of Companies / Calliandra Records Under Exclusive Licence To Snapper Music Plc ℗ Ian Anderson Released on: 2014-03-11 Artist: Ian Anderson Auto-generated by YouTube.
A promotional video for the Pax Britannia series of books created especially for the UK Games Expo 2011.
My first video log! Here I talk about the latest Pax Britannia releases from Abaddon Books, namely The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus, and Dark Side. You can find out more about these books here... www.JonathanGreenAuthor.com or here www.PaxBritannia.com
A promotional video for Pax Britannia: Dark Side, published October 2010 by Abaddon Books. To find out more, visit www.PaxBritannia.com, or www.JonathanGreenAuthor.com.
We investigate the lives of the people of Britain under Roman rule in the final episode of our gripping series "The Roman Invasion of Britain". After Roman control had been established, thanks to military bases such as the magnificent fort at Caerleon, the province of Britannia was relatively calm for a couple of centuries under 'Pax Romana', the Roman peace. However, whereas those at the top end of society prospered, the lives of those at the bottom of the pile could be tough and brutal. Bettany Hughes sees for herself the evidence of slave labour in the gold-mines of Dolaucothi. Bettany also traces how the Roman grip on Britain weakened as the empire's strength began to collapse.
Cromar conquers Britannia in the grand strategy game Crusader Kings 2. In Part 5, we enter the Crusader for Jerusalem and unite the British Isles. See the Crusader Kings 2 playlist HERE ➜ http://tinyurl.com/ojdv5vt =-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-= ★ Join TGN! We Are Gamers. Partner With TGN! ➜ http://tgn.tv/partners/ TGN's Awesome Website ➜ http://tgn.tv/ TGN's Partner & Community Forum ➜ http://forum.tgn.tv/ #TGNArmy = Get Promoted ➜ http://tgn.tv/tgn-army/ Check Out TGN eSports ➜ http://tgn.tv/esports/ Submit Your Videos To Us ➜ http://tgn.tv/centralsubmit/ Subscribe To TGN News ➜ http://eepurl.com/lKU0L ★ Engage With The TGN Community! Engage TGN On Twitter ➜ https://twitter.com/tgntv Engage TGN on Reddit ➜ http://www.reddit.com/r/tgn Engage TGN On Facebook ➜ https://www.facebook.co...
We investigate the lives of the people of Britain under Roman rule in the final episode of our gripping series "The Roman Invasion of Britain". After Roman control had been established, thanks to military bases such as the magnificent fort at Caerleon, the province of Britannia was relatively calm for a couple of centuries under 'Pax Romana', the Roman peace. However, whereas those at the top end of society prospered, the lives of those at the bottom of the pile could be tough and brutal. Bettany Hughes sees for herself the evidence of slave labour in the gold-mines of Dolaucothi. Bettany also traces how the Roman grip on Britain weakened as the empire's strength began to collapse.
We investigate the lives of the people of Britain under Roman rule in the final episode of our gripping series "The Roman Invasion of Britain". After Roman control had been established, thanks to military bases such as the magnificent fort at Caerleon, the province of Britannia was relatively calm for a couple of centuries under 'Pax Romana', the Roman peace. However, whereas those at the top end of society prospered, the lives of those at the bottom of the pile could be tough and brutal. Bettany Hughes sees for herself the evidence of slave labour in the gold-mines of Dolaucothi. Bettany also traces how the Roman grip on Britain weakened as the empire's strength began to collapse.
History Documentary hosted by Bettany Hughes, published by History Channel in 2009 - English narration Roman Invasion of Britain For several centuries, immediately after the time of Christ, the people of Britain found themselves if not the slaves then certainly the servants of one of the mightiest empires the world has ever seen - the empire of Rome. In this three-part series every phase in the long history of Roman Britain will be looked at. We will chart the way in which the Roman conquerors interacted with the native inhabitants of the land they called ‘Britannia’ and find out who gained most from the Roman occupation - us or them? Dominion We investigate the lives of the people of Britain under Roman rule in the final episode of our gripping series "The Roman Invasion of Britain". A...
Let's Play return the Roman Peace to Europe in "Crusader Kings II"! Most invasions of Britannia start in the east, but today is Opposite Day.
Marius e la legione riportano Commodo alla città di York per firmare la resa delle tribù della Britannia con Roma e porre fine alla ribellione. Al cospetto di Commodo Oswald e Budicca chiedono la pace e che Roma tratti la gente di Britannia con eguaglianza e rispetto. Commodo accetta di dare il simbolo dell'imperatore (un pugnale con incisa la N di Nerone) a Oswald e gli chiede come gesto d'amicizia un abbraccio. Commodo esegue ma dopo qualche secondo pugnala con grande rabbia e ira Oswald facendolo cadere a terra privo di vita. Budicca piange la morte del padre e tenta di prendere il pugnale gettato da Commodo, ma viene fermata da un sacerdote che le dice che quello non è il momento adatto e gli ordina di fuggire da York. La folla comincia a ribellarsi e Commodo ordina a Vitellio di tener...