The terrible wars between France and England, which wars are often explained by merely political causes, had a much deeper meaning--an economical meaning.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The terrible wars between France and England, which wars are often explained by merely political causes, had a much…”
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Kropotkin asserts that the wars between France and England had deeper economic implications beyond political causes.
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