Date of Award

2012

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Harvey, David

Keywords

Ottoman, British, Empire, Imperial

Area of Concentration

History

Abstract

This thesis, an examination of the autumns of the Ottoman and British Empires examines the social, political, and economic factors leading to the decline and dissolution of the Ottoman and British Empires. Beginning with the original motivations for imperial expansion, and contrasting the top-down military expansion of the Ottomans with the bottom-up economic expansion of the British, and continuing through the evolving empires, the factors are examined with consideration to Paul Kennedy's theory of imperial overstretch put forth in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. The consideration of factors beyond Kennedy's metric of relative economic decline aims to provide a deeper analysis of the social conditions and the role the will of the people played in contributing to the declining political influence and economic power of both empires.

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