The rise and fall of the British Empire

Content: Disc 1. The sun never set --
The challenge to Spain in the New World --
African slavery and the West Indies --
Imperial beginnings in India --
Clive and the conquest of India --
Wolfe and the conquest of Canada --
Disc 2. The loss of the American colonies --
Exploring the planet --
Napoleon challenges the empire --
The other side of the world --
Abolition of the slave trade and slavery --
Early African colonies --
Disc 3. China and the Opium Wars --
Britain : the imperial center --
Ireland : the tragic relationship --
India and the \"great game\' --
Rebellion and mutiny in India --
How Canada became a nation --
Disc 4. The exploration and settlement of Africa --
Gold, greed, and geopolitics in Africa --
The empire in literature --
Economics and theories of empire --
The British Empire fights imperial Germany --
Versailles and disillusionment --
Disc 5. Ireland divided --
Cricket and the British Empire --
British India between the World Wars --
World War II : England alone --
World War II : the Pyrrhic victory --
Twilight of the Raj --
Israel, Egypt, and the Suez Canal --
The decolonization of Africa --
The white dominions --
Britain after the empire --
Colonial and postcolonial literature --
Epitaph and legacy.