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The mid to late 19th Century might have offered the last best chance for Europe as a whole to put forth a combined effort to contain the growing economic superiority of the US.
So, as it says, what if there indeed was a combined effort to do so immediately after the Civil War?
What could Europe economically, possibly militarily, do to blunt the growing supremacy of US production capacity?