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,Political Rivalries and Cultural Affinities: 1815–1865,r American colonies presaged the ending of its status as a great power had by 1815 long since evaporated. Unexpected and humiliating though that event had been, its effects were soon offset by the acquisition of a vast new empire in India. The population of the rebellious colonies at the time of the

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,Rapprochement: 1866–1914,he world’s land surface and almost one-third of its inhabitants. Not even Spain at the height of its glory had exercised control over so broad a swathe of the world’s peoples. It was, of course, an empire acquired and maintained largely by force. From Waterloo until the outbreak of the First World W

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The Inter-War Years,merican relationship was concerned, the United States was now clearly the stronger partner. Four years of bitter struggle had depleted the resources of the one and greatly augmented those of the other. Now the United States was the leading creditor nation and New York the world’s financial centre. A

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World War II and the Grand Alliance,ion that would eventually engulf Germany itself. Emboldened by his successes to date and the feeble responses of the democracies, it seemed he had little to fear. The might of the . would soon overwhelm the ill-equipped Polish army. The Soviet Union, the only power in the region with an army compara

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Managerial Implications of the ECury drawings of New York, Philadelphia and other cities show a scattering of dockyards, warehouses, shops, churches and dwellings, built mostly of wood. Beyond the narrow coastal strip of settlement, seldom more than 150 miles wide, stretched thousands of miles of wilderness. America was raw and new

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