The Research On The British Colonial Policy To East Africa In The Late 19^th Century

British traditional colonial policy has changed because of scramble for Africa in the late 19th century. Britain abandons Imperial Free Trade policy,and takes the transformation from an informal empire imperial policy into a formal empire imperial policy.This transformation make an important impact on Britain and Africa. The research on the British colonial policy to East Africa is conducive to know the British colonial policy.The thesis consists of three parts including foreword, text and conclusion.The foreword clarifies the selection cause of this thesis as well as the research actualities both at home and abroad.The text includes five chapters. The first chapter introduces the European situation,East African development, the British diplomatic policy as well as the British forces in East Africa in the middle 19th century. The second chapter mainly expounds the informal imperial policy of Britain to East Africa that can be demonstrated by the informal control of British government to Zanzibar, the interference from the British religious force to the Religious War of Buganda and the British indulgence to the expanding power of Germany in East Africa. The main reasons why Britain implemented the informal imperial policy were that the European countries had little interference in East Africa and also Britain had a stable power in East Africa besides its traditional foreign policy. The third chapter is mainly about the transformation of British colonial policy to East Africa, The transformation of the British colonial policy is primarily attributed to the threat to the British forces in East Africa caused by the aggrandizement of Germany there. It was a time when Britain peacefully signed the agreements with other powerful European countries to establish their own spheres of influence in East Africa. The fourth chapter mainly discusses the matters of the transformation of British colonial policy to East Africa. The matters has three aspects including establishing the protectorate, consolidating its forces in East Africa and developing the East African economy. The main reasons of these matters are decline of economic strength and competitive of scramble for Africa.The last chapter analyzes the impact of the transformation of British colonial policy to East Africa on East Africa, Britain and the international relations.The third part concludes the reasons and the influences why the informal imperial policy was transformed into formal imperial policy in the late 19th century.