... a kind of modern Jesus figure, whose materialistic teachings should be adhered to by all those Americans he preached to, even in replacement of Christ. "Henceforth be masterless,"" retorts Ben. "Be ye each one his own master unto himself, and don't let even the Lord put His spoke in."" ' But despite critics such as Lawrence, Franklin's view of the perfect American is ... of the most popular literary works of the eighteenth century, which in effect contained a more detailed description of the concepts iterated in the Declaration of Independence. It carried a lot of weight, particularly w...

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... arguably ignorant view that the Empire was the white man's" burden and during its end was honourably discharged but deliberately wound up meaning there was absolutely no shame in the loss of the British Empire, rather they felt they had proudly come to a deserved end, passing on sovereignty to their "loyal" subjects.Darwin, arguably blaming the decline of the British Empire ... the Dutch with exclusion from Marshall Aid and the eventual North Atlantic Treaty, and the simple difficulty of fighting off the Republican troops. Concluding with the Dutch Empire and the loss of the Indonesian ...

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... a climacteric point where Britain's economic performance in output and productivity took a turn for the worse. Pollard says that the economic failure noted by many historians could mean 2 things, either the loss of momentum in the British economy, with a slowing down of both growth and development, or the relative rise of other economies which could catch up and move ahead through technical ... ...

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