The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Part 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... British colonisation from its beginnings in the seventeenth century , and illustrating the important problems and phases of British colonial policy during the nineteenth century . It offers the most numerous and successful instances of ...
... British colonisation from its beginnings in the seventeenth century , and illustrating the important problems and phases of British colonial policy during the nineteenth century . It offers the most numerous and successful instances of ...
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... British control . The Company's belated efforts , indeed , afforded Edward Gibbon Wakefield excellent arguments for effective intervention on the part of the British Government . His best argument was the report that the French intended ...
... British control . The Company's belated efforts , indeed , afforded Edward Gibbon Wakefield excellent arguments for effective intervention on the part of the British Government . His best argument was the report that the French intended ...
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... British territory — a British colony , if you like — in the ordinary sense of the term . But we discovered when we got to Paris that the Council of Powers had decided that there would be no annexations in the ordinary sense of the word ...
... British territory — a British colony , if you like — in the ordinary sense of the term . But we discovered when we got to Paris that the Council of Powers had decided that there would be no annexations in the ordinary sense of the word ...
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