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AN AGE OF EMPIRES , They came, they went away |
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Published by The Economist - Print Edition
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Thursday, 23 December 1999 |
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“Millennium issue: AN AGE OF EMPIRES">AN AGE OF EMPIRES , They came, they went away” "Neither the facts of European imperialism nor its motives were what they are often supposed to have been...IT HAS been a millennium of empire. Yes, but which empires? Those overseas of Portugal and Spain, Britain, France and the ands? The mainland ones of Austria or Russia? No. As the era began, Europe was disunited, and feeble. Neither! As it ends, Europe and its American heirs dominate the globe..."
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