The Prosperity of Liberal-Capitalism in the North Atlantic

• Published in: The General: Brock University Undergraduate Journal of History
• Main Author: Dhillon, Taranjot
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Brock University 2019
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/bujh/article/view/2131; https://doi.org/10.26522/tg.v4i0.2131

Violence, colonial living and the shift in political ideologies explained the success of expansion and consolidation of liberal-capitalism in the north Atlantic world in the early modern period. Although, disease greatly decimated the Indigenous population, internal conflicts ultimately led to the reduction of Indigenous authority and paved the way for colonial expansion.Unlike the French, which colonized to solidify trading, the English strategy was to bring in as many settlers to plant colonies, therefore pressuring Indigenous communities into surrendering control and power in the New World.At the same time, although the war was marked as a British victory, the British government quickly learns that their ignorance towards their North American colonies would become costly.