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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... period in which Dr Arnold of Rugby had dreams of his later years spent in an Australian bishopric ; when Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes made these colonies natural resorts for heroes and heroines ; and Thomas Carlyle , who used ...
... period in which Dr Arnold of Rugby had dreams of his later years spent in an Australian bishopric ; when Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes made these colonies natural resorts for heroes and heroines ; and Thomas Carlyle , who used ...
Page 616
... period . Elsewhere the greatest advance in early days was in the region of Congo and Angola , where travellers like the Dutchman Jan van Herder ( 1642 ) and the Capuchin missionary Girolamo de Montesarchio ( 1659 ) had penetrated to the ...
... period . Elsewhere the greatest advance in early days was in the region of Congo and Angola , where travellers like the Dutchman Jan van Herder ( 1642 ) and the Capuchin missionary Girolamo de Montesarchio ( 1659 ) had penetrated to the ...
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... period of fallow , was attended by serious drawbacks ; in particular , in Mauritius it fostered the cane borer pest which was doing considerable damage in the early ' sixties . Hence there arose a tendency in both Barbados and Mauritius ...
... period of fallow , was attended by serious drawbacks ; in particular , in Mauritius it fostered the cane borer pest which was doing considerable damage in the early ' sixties . Hence there arose a tendency in both Barbados and Mauritius ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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