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At the beginning of the eighteenth century, when this history begins, Britain was not a unified country either politically or economically. Wales had been forcibly incorporated in a union with England during the Middle Ages and its economic integration had become effective by the sixteenth century. Scotland, however, in spite of a shared monarchy during the seventeenth century, remained politically and economically independent from England until the beginning of the eighteenth century. The Union of 1707 finally created an undivided island with a population of possibly just over 6 million.
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Flinn, M.W. (1975). A dynamic economy. In: An Economic and Social History of Britain Since 1700. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00023-4_1
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