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What value was the Empire to Britain, c. 1900?
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Kongpob Muangsiri ID.4306640428 Britain Foreign Relations BAS What value was the Empire to Britain, c. 1900? For most of the 1900s the British had conquered and ruled a huge territorial empire, which stretched over a large area of North America, the Caribbean region, areas in Africa south of the Sahara dessert, the whole of India and even some parts of the Middle East. Having ruled so much land, people and an empire, it is obvious that the empire itself must be worth something to Britain. At the end of the eighteenth century Britain already stood alongside France, Russia, the Chinese and the Turkish empires, as one of the world's principal states. Thereafter the history of her Empire was bound up with her nineteenth-century records as an expanding Great Power. This was clear in various ways. First, the Empire constantly interacted with the development of Britain's modern capitalist economy. Secondly, the Empire...
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