In many ways, despite its appalling record in many areas, especially its major participation in the heinous slave trade, England and its British partners created the modern world. Its representative government, along with its rapid industrialization, explorers and empire builders, and rugged individualism placed the little island at the cutting edge of political and social innovation.
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