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This extraordinary collection of fifty distinct states has weathered immense &#8211; and recent &#8211; challenges, including a Civil War that was still raging as the first London Underground station opened. How did this melting pot of peoples and ideas not only endure but rise to dominate global politics, commerce, culture and warfare? 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