Pax Britannica

What I did was to connect the naval rise and fall with its relative economic rise and fall that the underpinnings of, say, the Pax Britannica were the Industrial Revolution, that the rise of Britain in the 17th century was due to the rise of trade and finance just as the fall of Britain was connected to its being relatively overtaken by other more productive powers.

Preparing for the Twenty-First Century 1993

We have used the force of arms to conquer the forces of barbarism and semi-civilisation, but the most hostile of our critics may be safely challenged to point to any country or province upon which we have imposed the Pax Britannica, which is not now the better for it.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

Often called the Pax Britannica, the Victorian era was a time when the British Empire, as we were reminded at school, included one-quarter of the population of the world.

Gods of the Copybook Headings 2009

Ms. Morris, best known for innumerable travel books and an esteemed history of British imperial rule, the Pax Britannica trilogy, first conjured the city-state on a remote peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean my guess is somewhere near the Balkans in 1985 with "Last Letters from Hav."

Visiting a Land Beyond Fodor's Reach 2011

Its Pax Britannica was thus almost a precursor to today's Pax Americana.

Now That The Sun Has Set Andrew Roberts 2012

Britain bestrode the world like a colossus and only those with strong nerves or weak judgment dared challenge the Pax Britannica.

20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011

In the 1910s, the rising power and wealth of Germany and America splintered the Pax Britannica; in the 2010s, east Asia will do the same to the Pax Americana.

20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011

But then I am an unapologetic Imperialist - I think Pax Britannica was good for the world and certainly better than what we have now.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

As the eminent historian Louis Dupree put it in his book Afghanistan (Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 425): "Pashtun tribes, almost genetically expert at guerrilla warfare after resisting centuries of all comers and fighting among themselves when no comers were available, plagued attempts to extend the Pax Britannica into their mountain homeland."

Chalmers Johnson: Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire 2009

The appeal of the pamphlets of Mill and Locke and Paine relied on the guns of Pax Britannica, and on the might of America when British power gave way.

Obama Tells Arabia's Despots They're Safe 2009