Nick Harkaway - In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went...

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In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

Nick Harkaway

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Großbritannien entwickelte sich innerhalb eines menschlichen Lebens und weit im kollektiven Gedächtnis von einer stabilen imperialen Macht, die einen nennenswerten Bruchteil der Erdoberfläche beherrschte, zu einem turbulenten Patchwork, das zumindest oberflächlich abnahm.

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