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This paper describes how England took up the Spanish idea of placing groups of imported settlers in the sixteenth century and put it in practice both close to home, in Ireland and across the ocean in North America. It analyzes how the English used Ireland as a subject for imitation, not as an apprenticeship, as was shown by their inability to create new policies to govern in a different continent and their use of unsuccessful ones. It looks at how their justifications for colonizing North America came directly from Irish sources and how the comparisons of the Gaelic Irish to the Amerindians convinced most Englishmen that use of extralegal force was necessary in order to duplicate English "civility" in the New World.

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"The process of developing official policy concerning the colonies also suggests that Ireland was not used as a model. In fact, it appears that the English relied more heavily on the Spanish precedent in both countries over their own experience, particularly in their justification of the transplantation of natives, which they compared to the Spanish removal of the Moors from Granada. Although the two colonies were dealt with in many cases in very different ways, certain elements remained constant. The main problem of colonization came from how to find capital to fund experiments when the lands held no precious metals, which was eventually solved in both Ireland and North America by the exportation of other raw materials."

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