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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... Agriculture proposed agricultural colleges and settlements as a panacea . When the provinces rose against taxation , and Paris was placed in a state of siege , rumours of foreign instigation became rife , and men talked of an alliance ...
... Agriculture proposed agricultural colleges and settlements as a panacea . When the provinces rose against taxation , and Paris was placed in a state of siege , rumours of foreign instigation became rife , and men talked of an alliance ...
Page 414
... agriculture , and not only over agriculture , but over empire itself . We think of free trade as planless and passive . They , by the aid of free trade , took empire in their stride . By free trade they secured political empire , and ...
... agriculture , and not only over agriculture , but over empire itself . We think of free trade as planless and passive . They , by the aid of free trade , took empire in their stride . By free trade they secured political empire , and ...
Page 469
... agriculture . But the conditions under which land might be occupied , and the price paid , by sheep farmers , or , as the Australians termed them , squatters , had obviously little relation to those which applied to agricultural land ...
... agriculture . But the conditions under which land might be occupied , and the price paid , by sheep farmers , or , as the Australians termed them , squatters , had obviously little relation to those which applied to agricultural land ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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