From Newsgroup: soc.history.what-if

On 2025-03-03 10:19, MummyChunk quoted:

Now what if Britain decided to integrate her white areas earlier say in
1850.

...

Britain now goes into the twentieth century with raw resources greater than the US or Russia and a population about a third of the USA.

The British Empire already had those resources. Its colonies were not
holding back, at least not in times of crisis. For instance, British
Columbia is proud of having the Empire's largest copper mine during
World War 2.

Change of governance is a different question. Our timeline has already
seen how poorly a tight relation with Thirteen Colonies worked out. The
UK was already working on a decentralized model.
--
-- (signed) Scott Eiler 8{D> ------ http://www.eilertech.com/ -------

"Your Royal Highness, instead of devoting yourself exclusively
to Minerva, should, instead, rather offer sacrifice at the altars
of Bacchus, Orpheus, Venus, and Morpheus."

- Advice to Prince Duarte of Portugal. From "The golden age of
Prince Henry the Navigator", by Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins.
Coming soon to Project Gutenberg.
--- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2