The nineteenth century was Britain's, in the sense that during the
period she more closely approached the status of world hegemonic power
than ever before - or since. The workshop of the world and the homeland
of the mind, Britain was an unchallenged industrial and manufacturing
power, with undisputed control of the seas and the largest formal empire
ever seen. She was also a place of refuge for liberal intelligentsia in
flight from despotic and reactionary regimes elsewhere in the world.
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