<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>"<i>We need to stop thinking that Britain invented industrialism because<br></i></span><i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">it had an especially laissez-faire government or because it had a<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">unique entrepreneurial genius or culture,” Satia says.<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">“Let’s acknowledge the fact that Britain was involved in a lot of<br></span></i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><i>wars, and in order to pursue those wars the government needed arms</i>.</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div><font size="4">The Roman Empire was involved in even more wars than the British were, so why didn't the industrial revolution happen then?<br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>John K Clark<br> </font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>