I don’t have a thesis, just a few comments. I think that it’s very possible to have a successful (from the repressor’s point of view) repression and that historically one of the main ways it has been achieved was by making the repressed dead and broken.
and still we fought wars to kick the Spanish out, what does it indicate
That indicates that local elites desire wealth and power, often more than the metropoly is willing to let them have.
I don’t have a thesis, just a few comments. I think that it’s very possible to have a successful (from the repressor’s point of view) repression and that historically one of the main ways it has been achieved was by making the repressed dead and broken.
That indicates that local elites desire wealth and power, often more than the metropoly is willing to let them have.