Well before Tony Blair went kissing W's butt. The British held on to a certain prestige until the Suez invation, when Eisenhower put his foot down. The British relented and put the very pro-US Harold Macmillan into office. Since then, Britain's special relationship has meant subservience to the US.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > michael perelman wrote: >> In The Invention of Capitalism, I mostly dealt with domestic primitive >> accumulation in England. In my new book in progress, I treat >> primitive accumulation in the colonies as the fuel of the domestic >> economy, but also as an ultimately self-defeating project because much >> of the surplus was dissipated in imperial wars. As a result, the >> great imperial powers, Spain, Portugal, Holland, England ended up as >> lesser powers. > > England ended up as a lesser power? in which century? > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- 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
