The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 3John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1959 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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Page 288
... Britain for creating this menace and for keeping it alive . It warned the German Government that , even though Rosebery still wanted to preserve the connection with the Triple Alliance , a growing section of influential British opinion ...
... Britain for creating this menace and for keeping it alive . It warned the German Government that , even though Rosebery still wanted to preserve the connection with the Triple Alliance , a growing section of influential British opinion ...
Page 495
... Britain's ties with , and thus her depen- dence on , the Triple Alliance . He had begun by trying to cut through these difficulties by means of an accommodation with Russia . When that had proved impossible , rather than accept the ...
... Britain's ties with , and thus her depen- dence on , the Triple Alliance . He had begun by trying to cut through these difficulties by means of an accommodation with Russia . When that had proved impossible , rather than accept the ...
Page 538
... Britain , it had made a British rapprochement with the Dual Alliance even more impossible , she had come back to the belief that she could afford to wait until her growing military and naval strength forced Great Britain , as it surely ...
... Britain , it had made a British rapprochement with the Dual Alliance even more impossible , she had come back to the belief that she could afford to wait until her growing military and naval strength forced Great Britain , as it surely ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Dual character of the Empire by 1870 | 11 |
CHAPTER II | 17 |
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