British world-system

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The British world-system refers to the global network of political, economic, and cultural power centered on the British Empire that structured international relations and trade from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

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instanceOf global power structure
historical world-system
international economic order
basedOn British naval supremacy
imperial trade networks
industrial capitalism
centeredOn British Empire
declinedAfter World War I
furtherDeclinedAfter World War II
hadCoreRegion British Isles
hadPeriphery African colonies
Asian colonies
Caribbean colonies
Middle Eastern protectorates
hadSemiPeriphery Dominions
white settler colonies
hasCorePower United Kingdom
hasDimension cultural power
economic power
political power
hasTemporalExtent 19th century
early 20th century
mid-20th century
influenced colonial legal systems
diffusion of British institutions
global commodity chains
global cultural flows
global financial system
international law
patterns of migration
spread of English language
isDiscussedIn imperial history
international political economy
world-systems theory
reliedOn colonial extraction of raw materials
control of sea lanes
export of manufactured goods
imperial tariff policies
informal empire
unequal treaties
structured colonial administration
global trade
imperial governance
international relations
usedInstrument British merchant navy
surface form: British merchant marine

London financial markets
Royal Navy
colonial chartered companies
imperial preference system
Sterling area
surface form: sterling area
wasChallengedBy rise of Soviet Union
rise of United States
wasReplacedBy American-centered world-system

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