Pt. 1. lecture 1. The sun never set --
lecture 2. The challenge to Spain in the New World --
lecture 3. African slavery and the West Indies --
lecture 4. Imperial beginnings in India --
lecture 5. Clive and the conquest of India --
lecture 6. Wolfe and the conquest of Canada --
lecture 7. The loss of the American colonies --
lecture 8. Exploring the planet --
lecture 9. Napoleon challenges the empire --
lecture 10. The other side of the world --
lecture 11. Abolition of the slave trade and slavery --
lecture 12. Early African colonies.
Pt. 2. lecture 13. China and the opium wars --
lecture 14. Britain : the imperial center --
lecture 15. Ireland : the tragic relationship --
lecture 16. India and the "great game" --
lecture 17. Rebellion and mutiny in India --
lecture 18. How Canada became a nation --
lecture 19. The exploration and settlement of Africa --
lecture 20. Gold, greed, and geopolitics in Africa --
lecture 21. The empire in literature --
lecture 22. Economics and theories of empire --
lecture 23. The British Empire fights imperial Germany --
lecture 24. Versailles and the disillusionment.
Pt. 3. lecture 25. Ireland divided --
lecture 26. Cricket and the British Empire --
lecture 27. British India between the world wars --
lecture 28. World War II : England alone --
lecture 29. World War II : the Pyrrhic victory --
lecture 30. Twilight of the Raj --
lecture 31. Israel, Egypt, and the Suez Canal --
lecture 32. The decolonization of Africa --
lecture 33. The white dominions --
lecture 34. Britain after the empire --
lecture 35. Colonial and postcolonial literature --
lecture 36. Epitaph and legacy.
