Three years ago, in the disorder that followed the Suez invasion fiasco, Great Britain was faced with such a run on the pound sterling that it asked for and got $500 million in credit from the ...

For the last month or so, I've been talking about the Great Depression the run up to it, the unfolding of the Crash of 1929, and the aftermath. But clearly, it's mostly been US-focused. And maybe ...

Great Britain was not alone in this line of thinking. The French, Spanish, and Portuguese competed with the British for colonies under the belief that no great nation could exist and be self ...