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 key to it lay in the West Indies ; for the economic welfare of their West Indian colonies was regarded throughout the eighteenth century as vital to the prosperity of their European possessors . It is not strange that British ...
The key to it lay in the West Indies ; for the economic welfare of their West Indian colonies was regarded throughout the eighteenth century as vital to the prosperity of their European possessors . It is not strange that British ...
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Free institutions meant , in effect , institutions as like those of the mother country as possible , and it must be remembered that in 1838 the British constitution was regarded as essentially " a mixed form of government ” ...
Free institutions meant , in effect , institutions as like those of the mother country as possible , and it must be remembered that in 1838 the British constitution was regarded as essentially " a mixed form of government ” ...
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The Company acted rashly and at times illegally ; Gibbon Wakefield was regarded as an unscrupulous intriguer , and neither at home nor in the colony did his friends treat the authorities with tact or respect .
The Company acted rashly and at times illegally ; Gibbon Wakefield was regarded as an unscrupulous intriguer , and neither at home nor in the colony did his friends treat the authorities with tact or respect .
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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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