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Fig. 3. | Pottery figures of sepoys, i.e. Indians who served as soldiers for the British East India Company or in the British Army. Produced in India as souvenirs for British colonial officials. Ethnographical Collection.
of the economic system and a requirement for the continued expansion of European trade and industry through the 19th and well into the 20th century. Even though sources are unreliable, the average standard of living in Europe at the end of the 18th century is thought to have been no greater than in the world as a whole. However, by 1913 it was at least three times higher in Europe and the United States than in the rest of the world – and for the most industrialised countries even higher. Our modern division between socalled economically developed and undeveloped countries was founded in the 19th century – in the era of imperialism. LARS K. CHRISTENSEN
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