Linda Colley Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: b. September 13, 1949
Birthday: September 13
A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.
source: Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.53, Yale University Press
topic: War, Expansion, Fundamentals, Torn Apart, British History
