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In 1500, the British Isles consisted of one moderately strong kingdom, England, and two weak ones, Ireland and Scotland. The separate nations, England, Ireland, Scotland and we should add a separate Wales, were not only disunited but weak in comparison to the emerging unified powers of France and Spain. In 1763, the situation was entirely different. Britain had just established an empire that stretched westwards towards Canada and eastwards to India, largely wrested from the French. How did this transformation come about? More important, why did it occur during this period from 1500 to 1763?
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Cullen, L.M. (1986). Britain under Westminster. In: Smith, L.M. (eds) The Making of Britain. The Making of Britain. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18167-4_13
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