The key expansionary players up to 1815 had been Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Holland, Russia, and the Ottomans. Only two of all these “great powers” - the Russians and the Ottomans - survived this revolutionary moment relatively unscathed. Spain France and Portugal lost most of their Colonies Only Britain survived with its Colonial power intact and its world role huge extended. 1750 to 1815, can usefully be understood as the first global struggle for Colonial dominance.  The second 1914 to 1945 was to come.

All progressive movements - such as the Haitian and later the Russian Revolutions - were deeply resented by the established authorities, and in 1815 the British, the Russians and the Ottomans attempted to replace the fallen monarchies. In this blog our aim is to examine the underlying causes which set the French Revolution in action. The sudden turmoil and revolutionary wars which consumed all of Europe after 1793 were a direct consequence of the French Revolution and loosened the ropes which held the feudal system of government in place…

Racism was the ideology that accompanied Colonial invasions over these long 500 years. Racism was also the backbone of ideas that accompanied industrialisation. The ideology provided the perfect explanation for the people who dominated globally; at the same time as they created new inventions technologically. The people involved assumed that they were a superior ‘breed’ of people. The French, Dutch, British and latterly the Americans absorbed racist ideas as the ‘natural’ order. The ideas of race and the racism that sprang from these ideas permeated Nations, so whole peoples assumed their innate superiority.