But during their mid-20th-century heyday, those colonies drew thousands of vacationers every summer.
Those colonies that had received the treated pollen suffered significantly reduced growth rates and produced dramatically fewer new queens.
In those colonies with royal governors the number of those colonies grew from one in 1650 to eight in 1760 the crown possessed a mechanism by which to ensure that royal policy was enforced.
The absence of a royal governor in those colonies had a particularly deleterious effect on the enforcement of trade regulations.
Even today, when one of those colonies bloodies the nose of the old imperial power, it is a reason for rejoicing.
The industrialised, western, world got rich partly because, over centuries, it was able to exploit colonies for natural resources and people, thereby keeping those colonies impoverished.
In one way, this is characteristic of "post-colonialism" as a type of literature: fiction and poetry in English written by citizens of former colonies, or by British citizens who are immigrants or the children of immigrants from those colonies.
The researchers found that those colonies closer to urban centres had higher levels of disease than those in rural areas because there were more viruses and bacteria present and they spread more easily.
Trade with Spain's colonies in Central America flourished, even after those colonies attained independence in the 1820s; however, the development of plantations in Belize was forbidden by the treaties with Spain.
It was nearly impossible for England to predict what role Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island would play in the overall scheme of empire because of the diversity of the aims and governmental structures of those colonies.
In the Chesapeake Bay societies of Virginia and Maryland, and particularly in the regions east of the Blue Ridge mountains, a planter class came to dominate nearly every aspect of those colonies' economic life.
