TRN250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Imperial Preference, Lin Zexu, Free Trade
22 Jan 2016
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Logic: even if the actions that we are trying to describe seem illogical, historians explanations must be logical, the illogical items here is the use of the same text to support diametrically opposed options. However, the american rebels and adam smith could be thinking along similar lines, as they perhaps experienced the same important events. Generally we focus on the leaders and other important figures during those events in order to generalize and develop ideas regarding the general thoughts during that time. Gallagher and robinson, criticize the historians in their rush to summarize the global imperialist trade for skipping over several items due to their over periodization of british trade. They are asking us to look beyond basic chronologic order, and trying to go beyond these limitations in order to develop a better theory to tie up the loose ends.
