Sina Mousavi’s Reviews > The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 > Status Update

"If we turn to modern-day statistics to plot the development of the world economy since the nineteenth century, the two-part storyline is clear enough [...] Since the beginning of the nineteenth century the British Empire had been the largest economic unit in the world. Sometime in 1916, the year of Verdun and the Somme, the combined output of the British Empire was overtaken by that of the United States of America."