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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Page 509
... IMMIGRATION 509 suffered so severely from sickness that in 1842 further immigration from this source was for a time prohibited . A very material check to the immigration movement came when the British Government by an Order - in ...
... IMMIGRATION 509 suffered so severely from sickness that in 1842 further immigration from this source was for a time prohibited . A very material check to the immigration movement came when the British Government by an Order - in ...
Page 717
... immigrants were also en- couraged to stay in the colony to which they had been brought , by the grant of a bonus in the form of money or land in lieu of their return passage . Thus immigration , adopted at the outset in a haphazard ...
... immigrants were also en- couraged to stay in the colony to which they had been brought , by the grant of a bonus in the form of money or land in lieu of their return passage . Thus immigration , adopted at the outset in a haphazard ...
Page 719
... IMMIGRATION IN JAMAICA 719 acutely from shortage of labour , but also never succeeded , in spite of many attempts , in procuring immigrants on a large scale . The total number brought in between 1845 and 1870 was only 22,034 compared ...
... IMMIGRATION IN JAMAICA 719 acutely from shortage of labour , but also never succeeded , in spite of many attempts , in procuring immigrants on a large scale . The total number brought in between 1845 and 1870 was only 22,034 compared ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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