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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... century legislators to make the Old Empire more nearly self - sufficing in flax and hemp had been even less successful than their attempt to make it self - sufficing in timber . These attempts were not revived after 1783. Raw flax came ...
... century legislators to make the Old Empire more nearly self - sufficing in flax and hemp had been even less successful than their attempt to make it self - sufficing in timber . These attempts were not revived after 1783. Raw flax came ...
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... century earlier and a century later , common fear of revolution gave the Governments of France and Britain a strong impulse towards mutual support . After Waterloo , this tended to be chiefly the support of the Bourbons by the ministers ...
... century earlier and a century later , common fear of revolution gave the Governments of France and Britain a strong impulse towards mutual support . After Waterloo , this tended to be chiefly the support of the Bourbons by the ministers ...
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... century Great Britain acquired the strategic and economic framework on which her future empire was to be based . Eighteenth - century strategy was a compromise between the advocates of operations conducted ex- clusively in the maritime ...
... century Great Britain acquired the strategic and economic framework on which her future empire was to be based . Eighteenth - century strategy was a compromise between the advocates of operations conducted ex- clusively in the maritime ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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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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