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Colonial Extractive Economies and Resource Flows to Europe (1750-1914)

Colonial Extractive Economies and Resource Flows to Europe (1750-1914)

  1. East India Company wins Battle of Plassey

    Labels: British East, Battle of, Bengal

  2. Treaty of Paris reshapes imperial trade empires

    Labels: Treaty of, Seven Years', British Empire

  3. East India Company receives Bengal diwani rights

    Labels: East India, Diwani rights, Bengal

  4. Haitian Revolution begins in Saint-Domingue

    Labels: Haitian Revolution, Saint-Domingue, enslaved people

  5. Haiti declares independence after revolutionary war

    Labels: Haiti, Independence 1804, Toussaint legacy

  6. Britain bans the Atlantic slave trade

    Labels: Slave Trade, British Parliament, Atlantic slave

  7. Royal Navy forms West Africa Squadron

    Labels: West Africa, Royal Navy, anti-slavery patrols

  8. Britain ends slavery across most of empire

    Labels: Slavery Abolition, British Empire, emancipation

  9. Britain repeals Corn Laws, deepening free trade

    Labels: Corn Laws, British Parliament, free trade

  10. Government of India Act transfers rule to Crown

    Labels: Government of, British Crown, Indian Rebellion

  11. Suez Canal opens, shortening Europe–Asia shipping

    Labels: Suez Canal, Ferdinand de, maritime route

  12. Berlin Conference sets rules for African colonization

    Labels: Berlin Conference, Scramble for, European powers

  13. Congo Free State recognized under Leopold II

    Labels: Congo Free, Leopold II, rubber extraction

  14. Congo Reform Association launches international campaign

    Labels: Congo Reform, E D, humanitarian campaign

  15. Belgium annexes Congo Free State as colony

    Labels: Belgian Congo, Belgium annexation, Leopold II

  16. World War I disrupts prewar colonial trade system

    Labels: World War, global shipping, imperial economy