![Peter Brueghel the Younger [detail]](http://photos.travelblog.net/310926/876591/s/8398352-peter-brueghel-the-younger-detail-0.jpg "Peter Brueghel the Younger [detail]")
Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear...more history