How did the British Empire write the rules of today’s economy?
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The British Empire and the British Empire in the Present Day
i think it's such an astute point to lift up this false dicotomy that exists between he kind of, the idea of the british no e for empire conversation being a purely cultural or symbolic one. By the time we get the act of the union in the early eighteenth century, we already have england in colonial relationship with jamaica and barbados. It already has the virginia slave colonies. And so they obviously impact the way in which a wealth an equality is accelerated in the united kingdom,. In comparison to other kind of standard bourgeois european nation states.
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