"The Pax Britannica was run on the cheap, Britain's army was much smaller than European armies and even the Royal Navy was equal only to the next two navies _ right now all the other navies in the world combined could not dent American maritime supremacy.
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The "'Indian Century "'( or "'India's Century "') is a term referring to the possibility that the 21st century will be dominated by India, similarly to how the 20th century is often called the American Century, and the 19th century as Pax Britannica ( British Peace ).
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Gavin Wright, an economic historian at Stanford University, says that analysts have been comparing this era to the Pax Britannica of the last century and early this century, " when the British had domination of the seas and certainly were not afraid of being attacked in Britain ."
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Karl Polanyi in his renowned work the Great Transformation states Pax Britannica held its sway sometimes by the ominous poise of heavy ship s cannon, but more frequently it prevailed by the timely pull of a thread in the international monetary network ( Polanyi, 1944, p . 24 ).
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They enforced it tactically as part of the wider Pax Britannica, which included enforcement of the Fast-growing British industry sought markets for its manufactured goods, and, if the newly independent Latin American states became Spanish colonies again, British access to these markets would be cut off by Spanish mercantilist policy.
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With children grown, Morris flew to Casablanca in 1972 for an operation that changed her sex _ and hardly missed a beat in her writing reconnaissance, completing her " Pax Britannica " trilogy, keeping up a steady stream of high-toned ( if not universally well-received ) personal essays and travel books ever since.
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The phrase Pax Atomica is derived from the more popular terms Pax Britannica, which describes the period of stability under British hegemony during the century preceding the First World War, and Pax Americana, which describes the period of stability under US hegemony beginning around the middle of the 20th century and continuing to this day.
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In approximately a 450-year time frame, on average at least two great powers were fighting one another in each and every year . " Even during the period of Pax Britannica ( or " the British Peace " ) between 1815 and 1914, war and military confrontations among the great powers was still a frequent occurrence.
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It was certainly easier for the heavy trading ships of the Southern Maldives to sail straight across the open ocean to India or Ceylon, where the Pax Britannica provided a safeguard and a common sense of belonging, than to make a difficult passage northwards through the treacherous reefs of the long atoll chain to sail to the capital.
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By the 1840s, Britain had adopted a highly successful policy of Unchallenged at sea, British dominance was later described as " Pax Britannica " ( " British Peace " ), a period of relative peace in Europe and the world ( 1815 1914 ) during which the British Empire became the global hegemon and adopted the role of global policeman.
