10-24-2020, 02:33 PM
John, if we go back through Crisis Wars for the Anglosphere, we have WWII in 1940, the Civil War in 1860, the American Revolution in 1776, and the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
What about the cycle before that? Did the Union of Crowns in James I & VI count as or supplant a Crisis War?
The reason I ask is because it seems to me that part of the buildup to each Crisis War is accumulation of inequality over the preceding cycle. This can be seen from economic statistics currently and before WWII, and there are indications in concentration of northern industry and southern plantations before the Civil War. The Revolutionary War was fought over economic control by British elites, and Elizabeth I was funding her government with royal monopolies just before the union of crowns, suggesting growing economic concentration.
By this theory, the Crisis War serves to relieve economic concentration by destroying the power of a substantial portion of the elites, such as the southern plantation owners in the Civil War. However, it seems possible in unusual circumstances that economic concentration could also be relieved through a sudden expansion of opportunity, such as the colonization of America around the time of the Union of Crowns.
Thoughts? Was there a Crisis around 1600, and what served as the Crisis War?
What about the cycle before that? Did the Union of Crowns in James I & VI count as or supplant a Crisis War?
The reason I ask is because it seems to me that part of the buildup to each Crisis War is accumulation of inequality over the preceding cycle. This can be seen from economic statistics currently and before WWII, and there are indications in concentration of northern industry and southern plantations before the Civil War. The Revolutionary War was fought over economic control by British elites, and Elizabeth I was funding her government with royal monopolies just before the union of crowns, suggesting growing economic concentration.
By this theory, the Crisis War serves to relieve economic concentration by destroying the power of a substantial portion of the elites, such as the southern plantation owners in the Civil War. However, it seems possible in unusual circumstances that economic concentration could also be relieved through a sudden expansion of opportunity, such as the colonization of America around the time of the Union of Crowns.
Thoughts? Was there a Crisis around 1600, and what served as the Crisis War?
