The worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire
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- Opium wars with Chinese - Transatlantic slave trade - Use of slave labor in the Caribbean - Taxation without representation in the colonies - Stealing raw materials and labor from Africa - Partitioning of the Middle East - Ireland
Some good stuff:
- scientific revolution in physics, chemistry, electromagnetics, medicine, astronomy, biology, etc. - industrial revolution: steam, locomotives, construction, mining, etc. - legal codes and systems - parliamentary democracies - standards for trade and commerce - English language as lingua franca
The worst of "revisionist" history!
Much of the "Scientific Revolution" was due more to Europeans in general rather than the British per se. The "legal codes and systems" were designed entirely with self-interest in mind and destroyed whole societies which were more community-based and self-sustaining in nature. The fact that they have become dominant is entirely the result of the "Colonial Era" and not due to any inherent "goodness" i.e. they are an "accident of history".
In particular; the devastation wrought on India beggars belief.
Watch this first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5ykS-_-CI . Also Read the book Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, (aka An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India) by the above speaker.
British Raj siphoned out $45 trillion from India: https://www.livemint.com/Companies/HNZA71LNVNNVXQ1eaIKu6M/Br...
For a description of "Perfidious Albion" read Empire in Asia, How We Came by It: A Book Of Confessions by William McCullagh Torrens.
And then wars in order to enforce free trade with Asian nations…