http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/2942/rory-lowings Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 16 May 2026 16:39:39 -0400 Sat, 16 May 2026 16:39:39 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1113/still-the-good-fight-the-commonwealth-of-nations-turn-60 By Rory Lowings - Once upon a time, Britain ruled the world. Fully a quarter of the Earth’s surface and population was united under the red, white and blue of the Empire. Had the British Empire remained a sclerotic, sedentary racial hierarchy, like the contemporary French and Portuguese empires, it might have died a slow, painful death, as did they. But Britain’s development of infrastructure, both in education and industry, facilitated the growth of national identities within the Commonwealth, whose claims upon independence grew in direct proportion to British decline during the Inter-War period. 3... Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1113/still-the-good-fight-the-commonwealth-of-nations-turn-60