At the time of Queen Victoria's birth in 1819, England was an agrarian society. Within a few short decades, this small island nation would be transformed into an industrial superpower, with an empire spanning the globe. Queen Victoria's Empire is both the story of this remarkable time, and an engagi…At the time of Queen Victoria's birth in 1819, England was an agrarian society. Within a few short decades, this small island nation would be transformed into an industrial superpower, with an empire spanning the globe. Queen Victoria's Empire is both the story of this remarkable time, and an engaging portrait of a Queen who ruled over one-fifth of the world's population. It is the story of the influential figures that would shape a distinctively British imperialism: Gladstone, Disraeli, Livingstone, Rhodes, and Prince Albert, Victoria's husband. Whether driven by profit, passion, or noble ideals, these figures would fuel an expansion unequaled in history, forever changing Britain and the lands it controlled. Personal accounts, lush reenactments, and evocative cinematography from former outposts of the Empire, including India and Africa, recount the dramatic clash of personalities and cultures that would drive Victoria's remarkable 64-year reign. 維多利亞女王出生於1819年,那時,英國還是個以耕地為主的國家。短短的幾十年裡這個小小的島國驟然變成一個工業帝國,版圖延伸全球。 這個系列既向我們講述了這個非凡的時代的故事,同時也為我們再現了那個曾經統治世界人口近五分之一的迷人的女王形象,同時還介紹了一系列使得英帝國形成過程中起到重大作用的人物如Gladstone, Disraeli, Livingstone, Rhodes, and Prince Albert等詳情