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In Defence of the British Empire

Quillette Podcast

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Why the English Should Be Colonizing the Americas?

The dawn of English imperialism is inseparable from the religious wars with Catholics. Champlain, who I realize is French not English, he regarded the Jesuits as a nuisance. As for motives in the Elizabethan period, so England had become Protestant. And when she was entering Protestant England back into the Catholic fold, there was an irreducible ideological element to the conflict.

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