Re: The decline of The British Empire
Not to be too abstract, but I would venture a guess that the fundamental causes for the colapse of the British Empire lay primarily in information technology and the widespread desemination of manufacturing technology. As in, it was less caused by political and economic events and more by changes that resulted from technology.
Controling a people from a far when they do not have telephones, newspapers, trains and cars is far easier than when they do. A movement like Ghandi's would be quite difficult orchestrate if word of mouth was the primary means of conveying it.
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