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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Equal in importance with the emigration from Britain of the “ redundant population ” was the settlement of the population on the waste lands of the colonies . But here the British Government occupied a position of unusual complexity and ...
Equal in importance with the emigration from Britain of the “ redundant population ” was the settlement of the population on the waste lands of the colonies . But here the British Government occupied a position of unusual complexity and ...
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A man , if he pleases , may invest a million dollars in land . If he miscalculate it is his own fault ; the public is , under every circumstance , the gainer . Here then at a critical point in imperial development had arisen a huge ...
A man , if he pleases , may invest a million dollars in land . If he miscalculate it is his own fault ; the public is , under every circumstance , the gainer . Here then at a critical point in imperial development had arisen a huge ...
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a THE AUSTRALIAN LAND SALES ACT OF 1842 469 in Stanley's Australian Land Sales Act of 1842 , the result was not something which Wakefield could accept as an expression of his doctrines . At the same time it was certainly not in ...
a THE AUSTRALIAN LAND SALES ACT OF 1842 469 in Stanley's Australian Land Sales Act of 1842 , the result was not something which Wakefield could accept as an expression of his doctrines . At the same time it was certainly not in ...
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Arthur Percival Newton |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1940 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2008 |
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