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He treats England as an exception to continental revolutionary pressure because colonies gave unhappy people an exit option unavailable to most Europeans.
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England
England becomes attractive to wealth because it combines island security, naval protection, intermarriage, religion or secret societies, and contract law.
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England becomes wealthy partly through state-sponsored piracy against Spanish silver, with Sir Francis Drake serving under Elizabeth I.
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England becomes attractive to wealth because it combines island security, naval protection, intermarriage, religion or secret societies, and contract law.
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Sidonia's migration from Spain to England is interpreted as capital moving toward the future center of finance and then later toward the United States.
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Venice, the Dutch Republic, England, and America are presented as four stages of transnational capital because each is a merchant oligarchy controlled by private interests.
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Jiang reads English religious conflict as a proxy for class: merchants and the middle class prefer Calvinism, while nobles and Catholic sympathizers resist reform.
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Spain's extractive demand gave Protestant France, England, and Holland openings through industry, piracy, naval innovation, and smuggling.
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Jiang argues that Newton's influence helped promote Christian Zionism in England, from which believers later went to America imagining America as the new Jerusalem.
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"...will respond differently the only place in Europe these revolutions is England and the reason why is that England has colonies where if you're..."
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"And the reason why the Dutch agreed to this is that the Dutch was basically a colony of the Spanish. So the Spanish had..."
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"...feel safe. I cannot put my money in the Bank of England. It's my money. If I lend it to the nation, I'm always..."
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"Because remember, both the Dutch Republic and England are Calvinists, okay? And the major secret society that facilitated trade, of course, were the Freemasons...."
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"...them, will migrate from Spain into continental Europe and up to England. They saw England"
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"as the future, and of course, from England, they will also migrate to the United States of America. Okay? Alan, can you read, please?..."
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"...look at them. These four distinct stages are Venice, Dutch Republic, England, and what's the last one, guys? Come on. America. Right? So, these..."
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"So when you have a diversity, you have diversity in England, and so even though England is a small place, as I keep on..."
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"...-reaction, okay? So there are these Catholics who want to return England into the Catholic fold. And they're, so Scotland is very Catholic, okay?"
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"and Holland okay or what we call the Dutch Republic okay don't worry about the name for now and so there are three ways..."
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"And piracy became the official policy of the English. All right? So Francis Drake was the most famous pirate of this time, and he..."
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"Basically artillery and long -range fighting. And that's what the English pioneered. And that's why eventually they become, over time, the greatest navy in..."
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