Invention of Modern World: lecture 2 - Trade, War and Empire
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| Description: | England was a warlike, but also a trading nation. It was involved in constant warfare – but on other’s soil, with other’s troops, or at sea. It also built its wealth on trade. And from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries it created the vast Empire upon which ‘the sun never set’. But how could such a tiny island do this? |
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| Created: | 2011-05-18 12:23 |
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| Collection: | Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | war; empire; trade; England; Britain; |
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