the Pax Britannica and more recently the Pax Americana. While one can question the degree to which "pax" truly existed in each of these cases, the conceptual idea is evident: that peace is ...

Though other nations, like the United States, had been growing in influence, the 1890s were very much in the grand shadow of the Pax Britannica. The threats posed by Napoleon had long passed ...

Britain was not the only place where the domestic development of liberalism was made possible by the pax Britannica. For the newly independent United States as well, security was a precondition ...

It was the case for Great Britain with the Pax Britannica in the 19th century, the United States with the Pax Americana in 20th century, and will be the case for China if it wants to build up its ...

The contrast could not have been more stark. From the high-flying bids of Book 1, the wave of a hand or catalogue was harder ...

The relative stability of the Victorian age had rested on the Pax Britannica; that of the post-war boom rested on the Pax Americana. When American power surged after 1989, so did peace and prosperity.

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Pp. xiv, 306. Maps., notes, biblio., index. $45.00. ISBN: 0803235143. The notion that the Royal Navy enforced a Pax Britannica during the nineteenth century, keeping the world in order, as it were, is ...

Morris wrote more than 40 books including a notable trilogy about Britain's empire, Pax Britannica, during the 1960s and 70s. In 1972, she transitioned from male to female, undergoing gender ...

In the 1920s, the collapse of the Pax Britannica and the rise of economic nationalism led to a sharp fragmentation of the global economy. Trade as a share of GDP plummeted, contributing to ...