《英语专业毕业论文-On the Rise and Fall of Great Britain》.docx

On the Rise and Fall of Great Britain摘要英国，一个由四部分组成欧洲岛国，总面积约24万平方千米。国土资源有限，却能率先打开现代世界的大门，从地理上的边缘变成世界的中心。经过探索，首次进行资产阶级革命，实行君主立宪制；第一个进行工业革命并发明蒸汽机，推动人类历史的发展；并在十九世纪中期成为世界工厂；并被称为 “日不落帝国”。然而，受第二次工业革命及两次世界大战的影响，英国日渐衰落，国际地位下降，由过去的“日不落帝国”到如今的二等发达国家。关键词： 工业革命；世界大战；衰落Abstract Great Britain is a European island consisting of four parts, which takes up 240,000 square kilometers. With the limited territorial resources, she should be the first one to walk into the modern world, and ranged from the geographical edge to the center of the whole world. Having experienced many explorations, she was acted as so many precursors: proceeding Bourgeois Revolution, creating one system of government called Constitutional Monarchy; inaugurating the Industrial Revolution and inventing the first steam engine which was an important role in the promoting the civilization development; being known as “the workshop of the world” in 19th century; winning the name of “the Sun-Never-Setting Empire”. However, badly influenced by the second Industrial Revolution and the two World Wars, she declined gradually, and lost her upper hand in the international competition. The prosperity of the former has faded away and become the second-classed developed country today.Key Words: the Industrial Revolution；World War；Fall1. IntroductionGreat Britain is an island off the northwest of the Europe Continent and on the east coast of Atlantic Ocean, which is surrounded by sea. With the decline of the feudalism and the increase of the influence of the new-born bourgeoisie, she began her capitalist development. Through the closure and foreign plunder, expansion and aggression, she completed the primitive accumulation of capital. After undergoing the Industrial Revolution, she became the workshop of the world and had the largest colonies. She has a splendid history. During hundreds of years, she has experienced the greatest glory and risen to the first one, but also fall as well as decline. What made her decline were the g