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A month ago there was some discussion about historical European colonial efforts vs. modern day difficulties of "nation-building" in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. I saw this article that discussed the various strategies the British used for colonial pacification. @JulianRota
Interesting, looks like that's worth a read too. The thing I ended up finding most persuasive in the previous discussion was this article, whose thesis is basically that the great majority of colonies were basically voluntary, with most of the people in the colonized country actually preferring the overall fairness and organizational capability that the colonizing nations brought to bear.
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