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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BRITISH OPINION AND EMIGRATION 441 Men's needs being always stronger than the intelligence of their rulers , it is hardly surprising that the British Government , in the earlier years of the new emigration , was quite unequal to the ...
BRITISH OPINION AND EMIGRATION 441 Men's needs being always stronger than the intelligence of their rulers , it is hardly surprising that the British Government , in the earlier years of the new emigration , was quite unequal to the ...
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1873 , the Board of Trade took over from the commissioners the relics of their duties , this body played an important official part as delegates of the Colonial Office in emigration affairs ; and their annual reports provide the drab ...
1873 , the Board of Trade took over from the commissioners the relics of their duties , this body played an important official part as delegates of the Colonial Office in emigration affairs ; and their annual reports provide the drab ...
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THE STATISTICS OF IRISH EMIGRATION 453 demitted office , the people blindly and with fearful sacrifices stumbled ... In the eight years from 1847 over two million and a half emigrants left the British Islands , the annus mirabilis being ...
THE STATISTICS OF IRISH EMIGRATION 453 demitted office , the people blindly and with fearful sacrifices stumbled ... In the eight years from 1847 over two million and a half emigrants left the British Islands , the annus mirabilis being ...
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