A Political and Social History of Modern Europe Volume N . 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...by John (Viscount) Morley (1889). CHAPTER IX THE WORLD CONFLICT OF FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN FRENCH AND ENGLISH COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY In the sixteenth century, while Spain and Portugal were carving out vast empires beyond the seas, the sovereigns of France and England, distracted by religious dissensions ... Read More

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...by John (Viscount) Morley (1889). CHAPTER IX THE WORLD CONFLICT OF FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN FRENCH AND ENGLISH COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY In the sixteenth century, while Spain and Portugal were carving out vast empires beyond the seas, the sovereigns of France and England, distracted by religious dissensions or absorbed in European politics, did little more than to send out a few privateers and explorers. But in the seventeenth century the England of the Stuarts and the France of the Bourbons found in colonies a refuge for their discontented or venturesome subjects, a source of profit for their merchants, a field for the exercise of religious zeal, or gratification for national pride. Everywhere were commerce and colonization growing apace, and especially were they beginning to play a large part in the national life of England and of France. We have already noticed how the Dutch, themselves the despoilers of Portugal1 in the first half of the seventeenth century, were in turn attacked by the English in a series of commercial wars 2 during the second half of the seventeenth century. By 1688 the period of active growth was past for the colonial empires of Holland, Portugal, and Spain; but England and France, beginning to realize the possibilities for power in North America, in India, and on the high seas, were just on the verge of a world conflict, which, after raging intermittently for more than a hundred years, was to leave Great Britain the "mistress of the seas." 1 See above, pp. 58 f. The Dutch Wars of 1652-1654, 1665-1667, and 1672-1674. See above, PP-S9 H3, 278. Before plunging into the struggle itself, let us review the posi Relative tins 01 the two rivals in 1688: first, their claims and Position of possessions in the New World and... Read Less

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