... You might want to read into this a bit. I studied the British Empire as part of my undergraduate degree (admittedly a wee while ago) and the industrial revolution was touched on both at A-level a… (View Post)
No we didn't, that's a fundamental misreading of the facts. We grew rich because we had an industrial revolution. If it was off the backs of anyone's poor it was the UK's poor. Of all our colonies, o… (View Post)
We haven't done well in the last century. Personally I don't think spheres of influence ever went away. It's just that the US stepped well beyond its traditional sphere of influence because it rose t… (View Post)