Linda Colley - Globalisation is not remotely new; it has...

Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.

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Author Profession: Historian

Nationality: British

Born: September 13, 1949

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Arnold J. Toynbee, C. Northcote Parkinson, Eric Hobsbawm, Simon Schama, Arthur Helps, A. J. P. Taylor, Antony Beevor, Norman Davies

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Been, Centuries, Degrees, Globalisation, Has-Been, New, Rates, Remotely, Scale

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The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific.

Power Slavery Revolution American

Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves British. It was predictable, therefore, that they would lust after empire, because this was exactly what their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic also did.

White Lust Side Colonies

Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and - if married to princes or kings - be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile.

Good Look Luck Royal

Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and began seriously threatening our own shores and safety, it became much easier to denounce any anti-war agitation and argument as inherently irresponsible and unpatriotic.

War World Safety Argument

Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.

Long Elephant Trouble American

In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.

Sometimes America Things Expensive

Transatlantic flights are unflattering. Hairstyles flop. Makeup melts away. Faces shrivel or swell from dehydration, and contact lenses give way to spectacles.

Makeup Way Give Spectacles

To be sure, political unions between European countries have often failed in the past, but usually only after relatively brief periods. Denmark and Iceland separated after 130 years; the unions between Spain and Portugal and between Sweden and Norway each lasted less than a century.

Past Political Years In The Past

The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it.

Way Free India Changed

The argument that any income redistribution is tantamount to socialism, and that socialism has always been unAmerican, has helped legitimise keeping taxes on America's very wealthy very low.

Socialism America Argument Always

America's entire homeland security enterprise positively invites questions even as it strives to reassure.

Security America Questions Homeland

Never fly to the U.S. the day before Thanksgiving or the weekend after because every airport is guaranteed to be crammed to bursting with people in transit to, or from, their home town.

Day Home Thanksgiving People

From the American Revolution right up to the Second World War, the U.S. was more likely to provoke suspicion among members of the British establishment than deferential approval. It was seen - with good cause - not just as a potential rival for empire, but also as dangerously egalitarian, worryingly innovatory, and excessively democratic.

Good War World Revolution

There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.'

History Never Single Empire

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