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    EMPIRE FOR SALE***: DECOLONIZATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
    (Kırıkkale Üniversitesi, 2015) Soy, H. Bayram
    Considering the controlled area and governed population, British Empire was the most powerful known empire. When the Empire was being constructed, tolerance was shown at home, but oppression abroad. The English people, while integrating the Welsh and Scottish people to the Empire, incorporating the formerly repulsed Jews, and embracing the expelled Huguenots, they built a relentless exploitation system, where the profit was flowing to the motherland, and did segregation, that caused increasingly reaction in the colonies where the colored people were living. In other words, they showed tolerance for the differences at home and in the “white dominions”, but they felt free in practicing oppression, persecution and massacre in the marginalized colored colonies. This discrimination showed its effect during the liberation movements very clearly. The tolerated colonies and subjects seceded from the empire peacefully, whereas those who were restrained and oppressed, gained their independence after bloodshed and revolt. Besides the upheavals caused by intolerance in the colonies, having economically collapsed due to the two World Wars, British Empire has fallen to the situation to be sold to her former colony to the United States