Here is what Krugman might be referring to: Seeley, John Robert. 1883. The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures (Boston: Little, Brown, 1909). 8: He notes the common emphasis on the growth of liberty and democracy, but he regards the expansion of the British Empire and something "which is not only far greater but even more conspicuous though it has always been less discussed. There is something very characteristic in the indifference which we show toward this mighty phenomenon on the diffusion of our race and the expansion of our state. We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. While we were doing it that is in the 18th century, we did not allow it to affect our imaginations were in any degree to change our ways of thinking; nor have we ceased to think of ourselves as simply a race inhabiting an island off the northern coast of Continental Europe.
[Michael Y., Seeley appears in Chapter 3] Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
