Re: RE: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis tells us that that the British behaved differently toward Argentina
than Canada.  Why?  Was it because the settlers were ethnically different
in Argentina from those in Canada?  Did Britain have to behave differently
toward Commonwealth countries?

Paul, could you give us a brief outline of the answer?

I also enclosed a quote from very interesting book that I know Lou has
read.

Drayton, Richard. 2000. Nature's Government: Science, Imperial
Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World (New Haven: Yale
University Press).
104: The American Revolution taught the British that they should
desire colonies with dissimilar climates to their own so that the
colonies with the complements rather than competitors.


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