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 attempts of eighteenth - 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
...
The attempts of eighteenth - 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
...
Page 243
ANGLO - RUSSIAN RIVALRY 243 expected storm should come.1 As after the
European convulsions of a century earlier and a century later , common fear of
revolution gave the Governments of France and Britain a strong impulse towards
...
ANGLO - RUSSIAN RIVALRY 243 expected storm should come.1 As after the
European convulsions of a century earlier and a century later , common fear of
revolution gave the Governments of France and Britain a strong impulse towards
...
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N the ceaseless colonial warfare of the eighteenth 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 ...
N the ceaseless colonial warfare of the eighteenth 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 ...
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