From the Industrial Revolution to the World War, the past three centuries have witnessed the development and rise and fall of Great Britain. Great Britain, an island country with a total area of about 240,000 square kilometers, enjoys a very important place in the world in modern history. Great Britain was the first industrial country and created the epoch-making laissez-faire capi?talism and built a sun-never-set empire. It was also the leadership of the world from the middle of 18th and to the middle of19th cen?tury. In retrospect to the rise of Great Britain, we can easily see that it was b...
