It is therefore hardly an exaggeration to suggest that betwe
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
It is therefore hardly an exaggeration to suggest that between 1815 and 1880 much of the British Empire existed in a power-political vacuum, which is why its colonial army could be kept relatively low. There were, it is true, limits to British imperialism—and certain problems, with the expanding American republic in the western hemisphere as well as with France and Russia in the eastern.
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