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 .
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 .
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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 mutual ...
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 mutual ...
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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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| 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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