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The Curious Task

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Canadians and the British Empire

Many canadians intuitively sort of embrace a dumb down version of capitalist peace theory because it fits with their lived experiences. The idea that trade equals peace has long resinated these r people but the idea comes from montescu indirectly, and it fits how how they feel about the world. We see that in the nineteenth century, i think, in talking about the british mentality, we need to draw in a bit of social class analysis here. So i think it be a huge mistake to say that british people as a whole in the 18 sixtys were extremely militaristin B actually, the capitalist pece mentality was extremely widespread in britain.

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