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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (33308)3/25/1999 3:49:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Economic analysis of colonialism depends on assumptions that must be made on non-economic grounds. In most colonialist countries, the advocates of colonialism were statesmen -- often mercantilist or bullionists or traders. French adventures in India and North America always seemed to me to be simply to annoy the British. Have you seen the reconstructed Louisburg in Canada? Louis XIV said to his ministers he expected to see its ramparts rise above the horizon because of the immense drain it was on the fisc. France in a few more decades, largely because of wars and and general waste (some colonial -- Canada and India and U.S.) was bankrupt which caused the calling of the Estates General and precipitated the revolution. Despite the disaster of its first empire, the French started again in the 19th century and hung on until the 20th. I think it is certain that almost any economic analysis of France would show that colonialism was a total thud.

next -- the U.S. -- stay tuned.
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