Before the age of discovery and colonization, England was an "underdeveloped" country in relation to the standards of the developed countries of the period such as Germany, Italy and Low Countries. While the population of France and Italy were respectively over 15 and 11 million, the number of inhabitants in England and Wales were fewer than 4 million. Also, Carlo Cipolla points out that England was more backward than that of most of the Europe continent in terms of the technology and economy. In that period, the dominant economies were in the Mediterranean lands. Despite the healthy expansion signs of English mercantile trade, the significance of English maritime was still small in comparison to the other European powers. So how did England
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Or how did they weaken the power of the Dutch and French Empires in the North America continent and take control of most of the trade routes? In this essay, I will try to show the successful development of the English Colonial Empire and the reasons beyond it. I argue that the reasons beyond successful development of the England were new financial system of the government arranged after the Revolution of 1688, the mercantilist policies implemented by the Acts of Trade to monopolize trade between England and its colonies, the geographical position of the England, the construction of a great navy to protect trade and to compete with other colonial powers, the plantation commodities controlled by the England, colonial expansion driven by the business circles of London instead of the government (gentleman capitalism), the population boom and increasing production in the colonies thanks to the Puritan migration, the victories of England over Spain, France and Dutch Republic in the naval and land warfares and more individualistic colonialism instead of centrally …show more content…
The most extensive form of these was settler colonialism, where permanent residents of the colonies transferred a broad range of institutions from Britain into the colonies without preserving precolonial arrangements. In the Americas and the West Indies, English Empire first established settler and directly ruled plantation colonies. While the English pursued direct colonialism in trade-oriented and plantation colonies such as Barbados and Jamaica, they established settler colonies on the North America mainland. The authors of article
Or how did they weaken the power of the Dutch and French Empires in the North America continent and take control of most of the trade routes? In this essay, I will try to show the successful development of the English Colonial Empire and the reasons beyond it. I argue that the reasons beyond successful development of the England were new financial system of the government arranged after the Revolution of 1688, the mercantilist policies implemented by the Acts of Trade to monopolize trade between England and its colonies, the geographical position of the England, the construction of a great navy to protect trade and to compete with other colonial powers, the plantation commodities controlled by the England, colonial expansion driven by the business circles of London instead of the government (gentleman capitalism), the population boom and increasing production in the colonies thanks to the Puritan migration, the victories of England over Spain, France and Dutch Republic in the naval and land warfares and more individualistic colonialism instead of centrally …show more content…
The most extensive form of these was settler colonialism, where permanent residents of the colonies transferred a broad range of institutions from Britain into the colonies without preserving precolonial arrangements. In the Americas and the West Indies, English Empire first established settler and directly ruled plantation colonies. While the English pursued direct colonialism in trade-oriented and plantation colonies such as Barbados and Jamaica, they established settler colonies on the North America mainland. The authors of article