ABSTRACT
I often wondered why the history of the English in the Americas was so different from that of either the Spanish or the Portuguese. The English fought a war of total extermination against us, with a virulent xenophobia, a disgust at the idea of intermarriage, and a mind-boggling self-righteousness that fueled an endless discourse. It is in large part simply because the English had accustomed themselves to such monstrosity, and had founded their new economic culture upon it, through their experience with Ireland.
