However, it was difficult to pull the empire together politically or constitutionally. Certainly, moving toward federation was a challenging task since the interests of different parts were already diverging, and in the last resort only British power—above all,sea power—held the empire together. T...
After the 2nd century, Hadrian and his successors consolidated Roman gains despite the repeated risings in the north, and country houses and farms became common in most parts of the romanized area. By the beginning of the 4th century, the skilledartisansand builders and the cloth and corn of...
Among the country's twenty most pop- ulous metro areas, those of Dallas (the fourth largest), Houston (sixth), and Atlanta (ninth) saw the largest nu- merical gains between 2000 and 2006, while that of Phoenix (thirteenth) grew the largest in percentage terms.[135] Language Languages (...
Most of the gains in this period were in Africa, where Britain acquired new colonial possessions: from Egypt in the north, to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the south. Colonisers dreamed of an Africa controlled by Britons, from Cairo in the north to the southern Cape. Plans were even drawn ...
British property website Rightmove said Wednesday it had rejected a third "unsolicited" proposal, worth £6.1 billion (US$8.2 billion), from REA Group, the Australian peer majority-owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire.
The first major crisis challenging the supremacy of the City in the postwar period was triggered by the fact that Britain’s empire-centred role began slipping away, endangering the sterling-dollar rate. Effects on institutions: As an institutional consequence, to protect the pound, the Bank of...
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The Balance Sheet: The Costs and the Gains of the Bombing Campaign Since at least a proportion of bomber production went to other theatres of war, the aggregate figures for the direct bombing of Germany were certainly smaller than this. Seven percent of Britain's war effort can hardly be reg...
always insecure about the security of their Empire, therewas an additional hazard to worry about. Alarmed, Norman (1884: 1-2)pointed out that foreign colonies in the vicinity of British possessions wouldnot only mean ‘the divergence of trade to other markets’, but would also‘necessitate the...
Even as the empire dissolved, Britain looked to the world. Anthony Eden, whose premiership had foundered on the rocks of Suez, gave voice to the mindset: “Britain’s story and her interests lie beyond the continent of Europe,” he said in 1952. “Our thoughts move across the seas to ...