The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... FREE TRADE , 1820-1853 IT was Adam Smith who gave currency to the term “ Mercantile System " ; and he meant it for reproach . The mercantilists assumed that one nation's profit was another's loss . They believed in regulation and ...
... FREE TRADE , 1820-1853 IT was Adam Smith who gave currency to the term “ Mercantile System " ; and he meant it for reproach . The mercantilists assumed that one nation's profit was another's loss . They believed in regulation and ...
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... free " trade in its original connotation of interloping . For during the war , with the sanction of government , privateering and blockade - running were exalted into national virtues . To them Napo- leon opposed his Continental System ...
... free " trade in its original connotation of interloping . For during the war , with the sanction of government , privateering and blockade - running were exalted into national virtues . To them Napo- leon opposed his Continental System ...
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... free trade and imperial increase . Perhaps the greatest fact behind the detail of policy and incident is the steady progress of the mother country to metropolitan stature in an economic sense . Increasing areas of the world became ...
... free trade and imperial increase . Perhaps the greatest fact behind the detail of policy and incident is the steady progress of the mother country to metropolitan stature in an economic sense . Increasing areas of the world became ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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