One last reference to the Pozsar piece, below.
From Delancey Place, March 1, 2022:
....In his Discourse of Western Planting (1584), Richard Hakluyt articulated a commercial strategy that would 'yelde unto us all the commodities of Europe, Affrica, and Asia, as far as wee were wonte to travell, and supply the wantes of all our decayed trades.' Besides procuring new resources, exploration and colonization would create markets to 'vente' English manufactures and provide 'for the manifolde imploymente of nombers of idle men.'....
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