The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8

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John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell
The University Press, 1929 - Great Britain

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... Imperial Government was disposed to favour direct imperial control . Hofmeyr and Upington wanted annexation to the colony , and the Cape House in its 1884 session accepted this in principle . But the developments in Bechuanaland and ...
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... imperial subsidy for the railway , and undertook to police the border ( November 1895 ) . It was a good bargain both for the Protectorate and the Imperial Government — almost too good . For it gave Rhodes his vital jumping - off ground ...
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... Imperial Defence , 1914 , LX [ Cd . 7347 ] ; Correspondence re expedition against German S.-W. Africa , 1915 , XLV [ Cd . 7873 ] ; Papers re Imperial War Conference , 1917-18 , xxш [ Cd . 8566 ] , [ Cd . 8673 ] ; Imperial Preferences ...

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Contents

CHAPTER I
1
South African Rivers
7
The Karoo and the Kalahari
15

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TitleThe Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8
The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose
EditorsJohn Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell
PublisherThe University Press, 1929
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized12 Jun 2008
  
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