After the Civil War, the US had become a great deal more connected with railroads and telegraphs, so people from different walks of life were in constant contact with one another.
Good question. It’s tempting to point to 1776 as the beginning of the end—an unwinnable war on a distant continent, hmm… but that kind of flies in the face of just how much Britain’s economy grew over the next century, especially from their possessions in India.
Let's broaden it. When did colonialism start to falter broadly?
AI says after WWII. When we were in Mexico last year you could see evidence of colonialism everywhere and they got their independence in 1821
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If you had to pick a single turning point, 1945 is the best answer. Before then, colonialism was still the dominant global system. By the mid-1960s, most of Asia and Africa had become independent, and European colonial empires had largely unraveled.
1945 is absolutely the best answer! It's no coincidence that the 80-year period I wrote about begins pretty much then. Whether you pick Hiroshima, Bretton-Woods, or whatever, you land really close to that major global inflection point. I think we're at a similar one today.
The poor British Empire. The beginning of the end? Or was it the fall of colonialism? Or was that when they left the EU?
What will they do next
Good question. It’s tempting to point to 1776 as the beginning of the end—an unwinnable war on a distant continent, hmm… but that kind of flies in the face of just how much Britain’s economy grew over the next century, especially from their possessions in India.
This is a VERY nice historian’s armchair I’m in!
Let's broaden it. When did colonialism start to falter broadly?
AI says after WWII. When we were in Mexico last year you could see evidence of colonialism everywhere and they got their independence in 1821
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If you had to pick a single turning point, 1945 is the best answer. Before then, colonialism was still the dominant global system. By the mid-1960s, most of Asia and Africa had become independent, and European colonial empires had largely unraveled.
1945 is absolutely the best answer! It's no coincidence that the 80-year period I wrote about begins pretty much then. Whether you pick Hiroshima, Bretton-Woods, or whatever, you land really close to that major global inflection point. I think we're at a similar one today.