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Pax Britannica: ► definition

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[1815 - 1914]
the period of relative peace between the Great Powers during which the British Empire became the global hegemonic power and adopted the role of a global police force.

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[...] Pax Britannica descended on the islands. That this occurred I think is less a tribute to the peripatetic colonial officers, who were ordered to administer both the Gilbert and Ellice Islands without the Colonial Office actually providing them with a boat, but more to the desire of the I-Kiribati* to reclaim their world from the rancorous influence of the I-Matang** reprobates who had settled on the islands.

J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.124 (2004)

^{*what the Kiribati people call themselves}

^{** what the Kiribati call honkies (firangi)}