The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1963 - Great Britain |
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Their great East India Company , weakened by official corruption within and by the pressure from its rival , the English Company , came in the late ' seventies within sight of bankruptcy . When France developed grandiose schemes in ...
Their great East India Company , weakened by official corruption within and by the pressure from its rival , the English Company , came in the late ' seventies within sight of bankruptcy . When France developed grandiose schemes in ...
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In the new British policy of commercial empire which followed the break - up of the old colonial system , India was ... After 1783 Englishmen viewed with concern the penetration of ships from the United States into Indian and Chinese ...
In the new British policy of commercial empire which followed the break - up of the old colonial system , India was ... After 1783 Englishmen viewed with concern the penetration of ships from the United States into Indian and Chinese ...
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( 5 ) INDIA OFFICE ( These papers are deposited in the Library of the Office , Whitehall , London , S.W.1 . ) Much material for South African history is to be found among the records of the ( English ) East India Company , preserved at ...
( 5 ) INDIA OFFICE ( These papers are deposited in the Library of the Office , Whitehall , London , S.W.1 . ) Much material for South African history is to be found among the records of the ( English ) East India Company , preserved at ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Smutss offer to S Rhodesia 1921 | 4 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
Copyright | |
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