Religion, colonising & trade

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Identifikator:: 1834114039

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222204

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Author:: Lucas, Charles Prestwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/101180705

Title:: Religion, colonising & trade

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 84 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter III. The restoration era

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THE RESTORATION ERA 37 seventeenth century in connexion with English colon- isation, he was referring to political, not to commercial, policy ; and, speaking of his own time, he argued that trade with a British colony was safer than trade with a foreign country, because in the case of a colony the commercial laws were under the control of the Mother Country, and therefore, the Mother Country of the British colonies being Great Britain, the commercial laws of her colonies would be good laws. He did not note that both the effect and the avowed intent of the navigation laws passed in the reign of Chatles II was to subordinate the political system to the com- mercial ; nor again does he seem to have contem- plated a British colony so free and so self-governing as to take, in the matter of customs tariffs, a line directly opposed to the commercial policy of Great Britain. Yet this came to pass in Canada within four ot five years after his speech. The endowment of the colony of Rhode Island in 1663 with a liberal charter allow- ing the colonists to choose their own governor was, as a matter of fact, apparently dictated by desite to conciliate other provinces of New England than Massachusetts, Massachusetts being feared and sus- pected in England for its determined Puritanism. The reign of Charles II was extraordinarily rich alike in activities and in writings concerned with the Empire. It was a time when new colonies were planted and new acquisitions made ovetseas—the Carolinas, the Bahamas, New York, New Jersey, Pennsvlvania, St. Helena (already informally acquired), and Bombay. But still more prominently it was a time of oversea trade, of outstanding prosperity for the East

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