Best quotes by Linda Colley on American
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‟ Both Conservative and Labour politicians in Britain are rather too fond of praising the relative 'classlessness' of American society and of urging their own people to emulate it. There is a certain falseness about such arguments, and also a certain hypocrisy.
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‟ In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.
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‟ Margaret Thatcher's decision to use Scotland as a testing ground for the poll tax was arguably the most disastrous attempt at fiscal engineering since London slapped the stamp tax on the American colonies in the 1760s.
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‟ The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific.
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‟ Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.
- Linda Colley