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Does economic rivalry provide a sufficient explanation of British Imperial Expansion after 1880? 1880, better known by some historians as the period of rapid European Imperialism, so much so that 90 per cent of Africa became annexed, of which a hundred million African came under European influences and control. The period in which Britain alone managed to increase its hold on the world by a further 5 million sq. miles. The very speed of this 'new imperialism' is extremely concerning and thus studying this epoch may better explain some of the political, economical and military tension that lay so very evidently within Europe. The aims and objectives of this imperialism, can really be looked at differently by different historians but according to T.O.Lloyd there existed two main priorities, being ' closer relations between Britain and the self governing colonies most of whose inhabitants were of British descendant, and also enthusiasm expansion by the acquisition of new territory' (T.O.Lloyd 209). He argues that imperial expansions were...

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