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 463
... land of the colonies " , the pioneers of modern colonisation slowly worked out a rational system for the distribution of waste lands . Robert Gourlay , in the introduc- tion to his Statistical Account , pleaded for the sale , and ...
... land of the colonies " , the pioneers of modern colonisation slowly worked out a rational system for the distribution of waste lands . Robert Gourlay , in the introduc- tion to his Statistical Account , pleaded for the sale , and ...
Page 464
... land by the State . When the British Government had conferred grants of land on half a hundred different principles , mostly wrong , and had operated through the edicts of a Secretary of State , the United States was binding itself by ...
... land by the State . When the British Government had conferred grants of land on half a hundred different principles , mostly wrong , and had operated through the edicts of a Secretary of State , the United States was binding itself by ...
Page 469
... LAND SALES ACT OF 1842 469 in Stanley's Australian Land Sales Act of 1842,1 the result was not something which Wakefield could accept as an expression of his doctrines . At the same time it was certainly not in accordance with colonial ...
... LAND SALES ACT OF 1842 469 in Stanley's Australian Land Sales Act of 1842,1 the result was not something which Wakefield could accept as an expression of his doctrines . At the same time it was certainly not in accordance with colonial ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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