Chatham meanwhile had stumbled upon a vaster empire; and the industrial system which his effort quickened could not live under an economic régime which still bore traces of the narrow nationalism of the Tudors.
Laski analyzes Chatham's impact on the empire and the limitations of the economic system of the time.
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