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This Sceptred Isle: Empire

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37/90. Imperialism and Edward Wakefield. By the 1830s, the British were becoming aware that their empire had outgrown its status as a large-scale trading opportunity.
Some were seeing great possibilities as far from Britain as it was possible to go. Christopher Lee 's history of the British Empire. For details see yesterday

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