British Empire - How it was built - and how it fell Paperback
British Empire - How it was built - and how it fell Paperback The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the British in the dark. Beginning in the…
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British Empire - How it was built - and how it fell Paperback
The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the British in the dark. Beginning in the 17th century with a few colonial settlements and trading posts clinging like barnacles to alien shores, and expanding dramatically thereafter by occupation and conquest, they created the greatest empire that the world had ever seen. The joke was a backhanded tribute to the astonishing achievement of the inhabitants of small island kingdom off the European mainland.
Covering 14 million square miles, or about a quarter of the earth's surface, it was seven times larger than the territories of Rome at their greatest extent. In its Victorian heyday, when Britannia ruled the waves, it consisted of 58 countries with a population of 400 million. By then it was a far-flung but loosely-amalgamated assortment of dominions and dependencies that dwarfed its tiny
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