HIST 208 Lecture 16: HIST 208 Week 8
9 Dec 2015
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Sources from the syllabus can be used in the paper however do not count towards the number of sources. Peter smith looks at confederation and the lead-ins to confederation as an ideological event. Why do the conservative party and tori"s want confederation why do the others not want it. It used to be viewed as an economic event not an ideological. Andrew smith argues that you need to look at how major elite economic interests responded to confederation. Confederation happened because the one percent wanted it to happen. It would have never happened without the social, economic elite, how investors work, how they influence political law, how they can use interest rates and bond rates. You have to look as it as a broad battle with two strains of liberalism. Elites have too much power about economics and socialism, everything is designed for the over centralised elite people. A lot of the power is outside the communities where they live.
