The End of the European Empire

Famines used to be a cyclical feature of european agriculture you get a few bad crops and people would starve because there was nothing to stop that from happening The last one happened in england in the 1600s. Ireland was a net exporter of calories during the entire irish potato famine Because the productive acreage in ireland was taken by big absentee landlord laddafundias much like in southern spain. They lost their empire and now it's coming home earlierBecause they lost it first and why did they lose it first because they got it firstbecause whatever social network gets power Once it can no longer expand which is what happened to spanish colonialism, uh in europe