HIST 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eliza Lucas, Hugo Grotius, Albany Plan
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Central and south america gold and silver. The english colonies were different: mercantilism (export more than import) Impact north and south: manufactured goods. Voltaire civic freedom: montesquieu, despots must be replaced. Britain is first and foremost a commercial empire. Edmund burke - thomas paine debate: whig - individual freedom, liberal and willing to accept independence, challenge to. Tory conservative, need to maintain strong central control for everyone"s benefit. Fight would not be a revolt, rather assertion of rights within english law: must maintain system and change it or if we overthrow we have anarchy, must start a new order back. Scottish enlightenment: wealth of nations - 1776. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self interest.
