The industrial revolution allowed the use of cheap american defense (a huge island), its vast coastline, extraordinary rivers, cheap land, resources, and labor, to do to Europe what china has economically done to the USA.
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The unity of the USA was only possible because of the competition between the extraordinary value of continental expansion, and the extraordinary risk that the european powers would either claim those territories, bring the states into more wars, or reconquer the continent.
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