The Role Of Imperialism In Great Britain

Imperialism was just a developing idea in Great Britain around the 1870s. The social structure in Britain pertaining to the low, middle, and high class evolved and so did the economic structure, encouraging industrialization and reducing trade. The challenges and reliability of writing history for imperial encounters are due to the various sources that explain the social, political, and historical structure of Great Britain, but the sources are biased and explain the imperialism differently. Various points about the British Empire’s history are difficult due to the different sources that try to define imperialism because history is based on the writer and where the writer came from. The factors that contribute to the difficulty of writing about the British Empire’s history are the numbers of book sources. Three main books that were sources for understanding the British Empire were the Imperialism by J.A. Hobson, My Early Life by Winston Churchill, and …show more content…
Different forms of government and political groups were described such as a constitutional monarchy, aristocracy oligarchy, Gladstone liberals, Tory Democracy and Disraeli Conservatives. Winston was geared towards the Tory Democracy, which was similar to imperialism. The Tory Democracy is basically a political philosophy that supported traditional principles with political democracy involving social and economic program (Tory Democracy). Winston mainly focuses on these various government types and political groups that influenced him. After attending a military academy, Winston’s military career allowed readers to see the British government’s action and their negative views toward Indian tribes. The British government’s plan was to expand their power southward of the Mamund Valley during the campaign in