The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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The growth of the Empire was acting as a slow but powerful agent in the awakening of the world by Western progress to a new unity . Meantime , English opinion was adjusting itself to the loss of the supposed advantages of controlling ...
The growth of the Empire was acting as a slow but powerful agent in the awakening of the world by Western progress to a new unity . Meantime , English opinion was adjusting itself to the loss of the supposed advantages of controlling ...
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To the merchants and manufacturers of that age it was the rise of a new system , in which commerce was sovereign over agriculture , and not only over agriculture , but over empire itself . We think of free trade as planless and passive ...
To the merchants and manufacturers of that age it was the rise of a new system , in which commerce was sovereign over agriculture , and not only over agriculture , but over empire itself . We think of free trade as planless and passive ...
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Canada improved her relations with the United States and improved British relations too , and her maturity did not break up the family of nations in the Empire . Great Britain , too , realised that the world around her was changing .
Canada improved her relations with the United States and improved British relations too , and her maturity did not break up the family of nations in the Empire . Great Britain , too , realised that the world around her was changing .
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1929 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2009 |
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