Great Britain is the fourth most populous country in Europe. Those of English descent constitute about 77% of the nation's inhabitants. The Scottish make up 8%, and there are smaller groups of Welsh (about 4.5%) and Irish (2.7%) descent. Great Britain's population has shown increasing eth...
The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900–18. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press. 1987. Pp. xviii, 295. $30.00 来自 Cambridge Univ Press 喜欢 0 阅读量: 21 作者: John F. Naylor 摘要: *** DOI: 10.2307/4049517 年份: 1987 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 全部...
Great BritainThis chapter reviews various characteristics of the labor force in Great Britain such as population, total labor force, activity rates, length of work year, industrial and occupational structures, unemployment, and labor market policies. Among all the developed countries, Britain has had ...
Still, the ruling Qing Dynasty in China enjoyed a huge, prima-facie home ground advantage at that time. China was a vast contiguous empire, with a very large population and it was, in many respects, exceptionally wealthy compared to far smaller Britain. Yet, the British, remarkably, were ab...
have been forced to devalue. Likewise, had the Federal Reserve not tightened the money supply in the fall of 1931, it is possible that there would have been a speculative attack on the dollar and the United States would have been forced to abandon the gold standard along with Great Britain...
Medal Great Britain Royal Humane Society 1830 to 1900The Royal Humane Society is a British charity which promotes lifesaving intervention. It was founded in England in 1774 (MDCCLXXIV) as the Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned, for the purpose of rendering first aid in cases...
Sobel describes the position of Britain in 1971 as one of five world powers, but one that depends on its leadership of the United Empire (primarily Australia) and its alliances with the C.N.A. and with Japan. He speculates that Britain might be forced to choose sides in an Australia-Jap...
Greater London, which absorbed parts of adjacent counties, has an area of 1,800 sq km and a population of 7.4 million (1971). Approximately one-seventh of the population of Great Britain is concentrated within the conurbation of Greater London. The conurbation continues to expand within the...
in part because of its degree ofindustrializationand its imperial holdings and in spite of the fact that three-fourths or more of its population was working-class.Late in the period, Britain began to decline as a global political and economic power relative to other major powers, particularly ...
The Normative Foundations of Hegemony and The Coming Challenge to Pax Americana The normative foundations of hegemony are studied across four great powers: the Ottoman Empire, Imperial China, Great Britain, and the United States. The ... CHARLES A. KUPCHAN - 《Security Studies》 被引量: 19发表...