tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post1199946030722529664..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: What If... Britain Had Won America's Revolutionary War?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-30428657621324067012017-06-27T21:05:46.084-07:002017-06-27T21:05:46.084-07:00What I find interesting in this discussion is the ...<br />What I find interesting in this discussion is the notion that Canada and the United States somehow developed in some symmetry. Nothing could be further from the truth and Canadians should be eternally grateful for the distinctions. <br /><br />The Brits developed their American colonies as plantation states with quasi-criminal forced labour. Professor Nancy Isenberg explores this in her book, "White Trash, the 400 year untold history of class in America." It's easy to see why Britain never had the same designs on its Canadian colonies. Factors such as the French presence in Quebec, the fur trade, Canada's remoteness and climate, slowed Britain's expansion into the northern territories - the establishment of towns, road networks, lines of communication, etc. This prevented us from being subject to the same type of exploitation. If you read "White Trash" you should get a sense of how grateful Canadians should be that Britain got her predatory teeth sunk into the American colonies fully two centuries before it got around to Canada.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-67225770239778526612017-06-27T16:55:50.089-07:002017-06-27T16:55:50.089-07:00There has long been some discussion among historia...There has long been some discussion among historians as to why the English let the Americans win. If the English had really wanted to they could have clobbered the Colonists. Yes, the English were distracted, as usual, by their conflict with the French. Even so, there seems to have been an element of apathy on the part of the English. There were thirteen unique colonies showing little interest in getting along with each other. Maybe they saw American independence as an opportunity to get out from under administrative costs while capturing the lion's share of trade. <br /><br />As you said, Mound, it's too late to cry over lost opportunities. Tobynoreply@blogger.com