The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1940 - Commonwealth countries |
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But for most of their short - term accommodation colonial producers depended on local banks with very small capital resources or on advances from purchasers in the United Kingdom ; all colonies lacked adequate machinery for financing ...
But for most of their short - term accommodation colonial producers depended on local banks with very small capital resources or on advances from purchasers in the United Kingdom ; all colonies lacked adequate machinery for financing ...
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years when there was a large export of railway capital , or when the Indian Government became a creditor of England on the exchange account for the amount raised in England to cover a famine deficit , then the exchange turned against ...
years when there was a large export of railway capital , or when the Indian Government became a creditor of England on the exchange account for the amount raised in England to cover a famine deficit , then the exchange turned against ...
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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 Indian capital went into tea ...
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 Indian capital went into tea ...
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The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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