The Cambridge History of the British Empire: The growth of the new Empire, l783-1870Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians The University Press, 1940 - Great Britain |
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... English . One might venture on the generalisation that English pioneers of the governing classes were as supreme in this field of creative colonisation as Highland and Lowland Scots were in the effective communal organisation of terri ...
... English . One might venture on the generalisation that English pioneers of the governing classes were as supreme in this field of creative colonisation as Highland and Lowland Scots were in the effective communal organisation of terri ...
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... English market . At the same time the English taste for tea was revolutionised . Indian tea , at first so pungent that it could be sold only by mixing small quantities of it with Chinese , became by the ' eighties the customary English ...
... English market . At the same time the English taste for tea was revolutionised . Indian tea , at first so pungent that it could be sold only by mixing small quantities of it with Chinese , became by the ' eighties the customary English ...
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... English tea companies . How far was Indian tea production financed by English capital and how far was such capital the savings of the ordinary English investors ? To both questions it is only possible to sketch an answer . Some ...
... English tea companies . How far was Indian tea production financed by English capital and how far was such capital the savings of the ordinary English investors ? To both questions it is only possible to sketch an answer . Some ...
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CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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