I'd say so, yeah. New York and Philadelphia were the metropole and the South and west (talking about Ohio Valley in the 1780s) were the peripheries. Basic empires work with a metropole drawing wealth and investment from periphery colonies. So it was a small internal empire from the beginning and only became an oceanic empire in the later 19th century.
I'd say so, yeah. New York and Philadelphia were the metropole and the South and west (talking about Ohio Valley in the 1780s) were the peripheries. Basic empires work with a metropole drawing wealth and investment from periphery colonies. So it was a small internal empire from the beginning and only became an oceanic empire in the later 19th century.
New York is the Empire State :thonk: