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What portion of the finance industry was British prior to WWI?
It's sometimes stated that Britain was the financial capital of the world prior to the First World War, and that it took extraordinary war spending like that in the Great War to shift the capital to ...
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How profitable was India for the British Empire in the 1800s?
I recently read Imperial Twilight, an excellent history of the opium wars. The author claims several times that while the British trade with China was very lucrative, India was by contrast "...
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Was the British Army a millionaire factory in the early 20th century?
I'm reading "Kenya Diary" by Richard Meinertzhagen where he relates his experiences as a junior officer in the British army around 1902. At one point he states that during his 5 year service in East ...
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What did the British Empire mean by "Free Trade" in reference to the colonies?
Background: This feels like sort of a silly question for me to be asking after reading about the Victorian Age and the British Empire for several months, but here goes.
As I've read about the ...
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What Were the Primary Causes of 15th to 19th Century British Chartered Companies' Failures?
A Wikipedia list suggests that the earliest deemed English chartered trade monopoly organization was The Company of Merchant Adventurers of London in 1407 and presumably most, if not nearly all, ...
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How would British counterfeiting efforts in the revolutionary war have inflated the American currency? [closed]
During the revolutionary war one of the British's espionage tactics was to flood the American market with counterfeit currency to cause mass runaway inflation.
But how would that have worked? I don't ...
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How did WWII change the GDPs of the great empires of the world?
According to wikipedia some of the greatest European empires seemed to peak in GDP in 1938. I assume that it was WWII that caused declines in the GDPs of these empires. If this indeed the case, then ...
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Why did the British not introduce the sterling in India?
The question is about the adoption of currency during imperialist rule.
Why did the British persist with the local currency, the rupee?
What impediments did the British face in implementing the ...
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Did the end of the British Raj in India create an economic loss for Britain?
I know the economic downturn of the World War and the victory of the Labour Party played some role in Britain deciding to quit India. Did GB have any serious economic implications because of this? ...
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Approximately what was the short-term economic loss to Britain as a result of the Revolutionary War being lost?
Is there any research that shows what the economic impact was to the British economy stemming from the 13 Colonies obtaining independence?
It could be either a narrower estimate of purely tax losses ...
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How heavily were the British taxing their American colonies?
The British levied several taxes on the American Colonists (13), which were at least part of the reason for the American Revolution. Were the British taxing the 13 colonies for more money than was ...
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