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Donnie - I'm curious how mercantilism played a major role in the migration of colonists to North America. I thought that mercantilism had more to do with the import and export of goods than it did with demographic shifts, but correct me if I'm missing something.
I mentioned Mercantilism because that was the economic policy/structure of the time. The benefits of empire can't be weighed without understanding the economic platform from which it was run. The migration patterns can be related because of the economic opportunities afforded colonists as suppliers to the empire. Obviously the empire needed workers to extract raw materials to send back to the homeland to be made into finished goods. So colonization itself is a business venture designed to feed the increase in economies of scale. Anyway, it's a beginning for Alonso to start looking.
I am writing a paper on the benefits England got from letting their people settle North America as well as the effects the migration had on Europe. My trouble is that I am having a tough time finding credible sources with good information and wanted to know if anyone could help me.Thanks in advance.
Hello Alonso! Check out Lars G. Magnusson who can explain the concepts of Mercantilism for you. Here is a link to the Google Book excerpt. [url url=http://"http://books.google.com/books?id=3H8gBQv5MysC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=Lars+G.+Magnusson&source=bl&ots=YJ08GkjE0q&sig=AkCe8DuLtHjWwGJfpBdrONgnuVg&hl=en&ei=Dw8kTKfLB4LfnAfRnKCSDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Lars%20G.%20Magnusson&f=false"]Google Book Link[/url]As to the migration part try [url url=http://"http://books.google.com/books?id=ug3vygR4GWIC&pg=PA177&dq=British+Migration+Colonies&hl=en&ei=zg8kTNzlCaHpnQf7wOWSDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=British%20Migration%20Colonies&f=false"]Here[/url]Mind you these are just to get you looking in the right direction. Also, Google "Economy of Scale" which is another concept associated with Mercantilism.
Sounds like awesome book material to me! Welcome to the forum soldier! We're honored to have another combat veteran among us. 🙂
Based on my reading and listening to survivors and former German soldiers, I am convinced Hitler gave both coherent and incoherent voice to traditional "murderous" European antisemitism, most especially in the Slavic lands where tribalism trumped and still does trump all other -isms. Remember former Yugoslavia?Murderous types also appeared in Western Europe as well in the collaborative governments.An anecdote. About fifteen years ago, I met a couple. The husband grew up in a Slovak immigrant family. When he brought home the English-German-Dutch American Protestant girl he wanted to marry, his mother called her a Jew no matter how much he protested she was not. He said his mother told him, "If she is not Slovak, she is a Jew."
People often forget that Hitler's views were more the norm with many in German/European society than not. It's no small wonder how his policies resonated so well with the German people. The Depression and the bitterness over losing World War I brought out the worst of a once proud people. Hitler played it all up that is for sure.
A Bavarian auction house is going to auction off approximately 500 letters and other documents from Hitlers time in Landsberg prison in 1924. The minimum bid is set at 25,000 Euro. I wonder who will buy them and if there is some kind of vetting process to ensure that Neo-Nazis cannot buy them. This being Germany, I would bet there is some kind of criteria about who an eligible bidder is.
I was going to say wouldn't it be illegal to own those documents in Germany unless you were the government or a museum or university?
I'm thinking about using it for some things, but my Dad sells on Ebay and he told me that you can list items locally for free. Could go that route I guess.
I've had to sleep in a dorm room on the fourth floor with no AC. It was awful. You couldn't sleep because you were sweating so bad and your sheets were soaking wet. Ugh!! Never again.
I am officially an idiot. So I decided to look into my .htaccess file (something I would have thought I did a long time ago when the problem first emerged) and I saw the following lines inserted into the code:
Code:RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} 88.RewriteRule .* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History#Historical_methods [R]That means that whenever someone with an IP address that began with "88" came to the site, they were redirected to the historical methods section of Wikipedia. Argh! I would have thought I would have checked there when this problem first started popping up! The thing is, I don't remember modifying .htaccess (it was done so on February 27, 2009). I'm not sure if someone else did this or what (or if I did it and just forgot). Anyway, my apologies for all this mess. I deleted the lines above and so people shouldn't be experiencing the problem again. Signed, the Mindless Webmaster.
I remember when you did that. I think we talked about it in PM's somewhere.
It's IP Address related I'm sure. If you have a dynamic IP Address you may at times be within the range Phid has flagged for some spammers. When your IP Address changes again, you are back outside the flagged range. If it's not this, I don't know what else it can be.
Is it something your server does? It might be in your root directory of your hotdocs or your .htaccess file (something your host does by default).The thing is, the spammers that I block should get a message saying that they are blocked, or get some "access denied" message. I'm not sure why anyone would be redirected to Wikipedia... ???
It's IP Address related I'm sure. If you have a dynamic IP Address you may at times be within the range Phid has flagged for some spammers. When your IP Address changes again, you are back outside the flagged range. If it's not this, I don't know what else it can be.
Rush said Biden told BP they had no choice. Perhaps the final figure was the part forced and not BP's original offer.
The one thing that I don't agree with is Obama forcing BP to pony up what 20 billion dollars? That's extortion any way you look at it. But BP agreed to do it, and so the only people screwed are the British tax payers. Rush Limbaugh was going off on this today, and I had to agree with him.
I'm no big supporter of Obama, and I do admit he hasn't really done much leading in this catastrophe, but I'm really not sure what he could have done in the first place. BP tried to do their thing and they have come up short. Yes the government prolonged things with the protocol and jurisdiction squabbles, but I really feel everybody involved was shooting in the dark on this one trying and hoping to find a solution. I can also see where Obama probably didn't want a quick solution because he is known for not letting a good crisis go to waste. I'm not sure Bush would have handled this any better (not appreciably anyway). It is what it is, and it's sad.
