it sounded like you were saying that the UK tanked as a result of the imperial wars at the time of the primitive accumulation in England, which had mostly ended by about 100 years before the Suez invasion.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:39 PM, michael perelman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
