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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Equal in importance with the emigration from Britain of the “redundant population
” was the settlement of the population on the waste lands of the colonies. But
here the British Government occupied a position of unusual complexity and
difficulty ...
Equal in importance with the emigration from Britain of the “redundant population
” was the settlement of the population on the waste lands of the colonies. But
here the British Government occupied a position of unusual complexity and
difficulty ...
Page 464
A man, if he pleases, may invest a million dollars in land. If he miscalculate it is
his own fault; the public is, under every circumstance, the gainer. Here then at a
critical point in imperial development had arisen a huge parallel experiment in
sale ...
A man, if he pleases, may invest a million dollars in land. If he miscalculate it is
his own fault; the public is, under every circumstance, the gainer. Here then at a
critical point in imperial development had arisen a huge parallel experiment in
sale ...
Page 469
THE AUSTRALIAN LAND SALES ACT OF 1842 469 in Stanley's Australian Land
Sales Act of 1842, the result was not something which Wakefield could accept as
an expression of his doctrines. At the same time it was certainly not in ...
THE AUSTRALIAN LAND SALES ACT OF 1842 469 in Stanley's Australian Land
Sales Act of 1842, the result was not something which Wakefield could accept as
an expression of his doctrines. At the same time it was certainly not in ...
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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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