The British had an empire to run. The way that they kept their economy healthy was through a system called mercantilism. Mercantilism was a popular economic philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries. In this system, the British colonies were moneymakers for the mother country. The British put restrictions on how their colonies spent their money so that they could control their economies. They put limits on what goods the colonies could produce, whose ships they could use, and most importantly, with whom they could trade. The British even put taxes called duties on imported goods to discourage this practice. This pushed the colonists to buy only British goods, instead of goods from other European countries
The conflict theorist Engels referred the "gender-based slavery" as the divided labor in capitalism wherein women will do the household labor and they will not receive any status or income, while the men, on the other hand, will leave their own home to earn money or income.
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A. Isolationist approach to the first world war
