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The nineteenth century was Britain’s century. Her imperial and economic power increased as never before, and she appeared to be the most successful state in the world. Although Britain experienced fundamental socio-economic changes, which brought considerable dislocation and hardship, she did so without revolution or sustained social disorder. Although the failure to integrate Ireland successfully into Britain, and its future, were serious problems, the nineteenth century was the first in which ‘the British problem’ did not lead to war or insurrection. The ‘economic advantages’ of Union were too ‘great and obvious’ for many Scots ‘to doubt its political desirability’.1
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