The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... Africa . The history of the various parts of the dependent Empire will be treated in the first three volumes in con- nection with the general story of the Empire's growth and policy . The volumes on the history of the Dominions are ...
... Africa . The history of the various parts of the dependent Empire will be treated in the first three volumes in con- nection with the general story of the Empire's growth and policy . The volumes on the history of the Dominions are ...
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... Africa will appear in the volumes devoted to the Dominions . The Editors take this opportunity to express their thanks also to Dr Temperley for valued advice on many occasions , to Dr C. W. Previté - Orton , Editor of the English ...
... Africa will appear in the volumes devoted to the Dominions . The Editors take this opportunity to express their thanks also to Dr Temperley for valued advice on many occasions , to Dr C. W. Previté - Orton , Editor of the English ...
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... Africa Defective Knowledge of the Interior The Government of Senegambia • War with the French and Dutch Change in British Relations with Africa CHAPTER XVI THE SEVEN YEARS ' WAR By W. F. REDDAWAY , M.A. The Decade after the Peace of Aix ...
... Africa Defective Knowledge of the Interior The Government of Senegambia • War with the French and Dutch Change in British Relations with Africa CHAPTER XVI THE SEVEN YEARS ' WAR By W. F. REDDAWAY , M.A. The Decade after the Peace of Aix ...
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... Africa . The Continuity of Constitutional Evolution Bacon and the Plantations Property and Political Power " Fundamental Constitutions " of Carolina Influence of Harrington in America Organisation of the English Colonial System ...
... Africa . The Continuity of Constitutional Evolution Bacon and the Plantations Property and Political Power " Fundamental Constitutions " of Carolina Influence of Harrington in America Organisation of the English Colonial System ...
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... Africa , and went far to- wards creating a land empire in Spain . Carthage fell before Rome , which beginning as a city , ended as a world - the Mediterranean world . Rome made an empire of more or less well - governed de- pendencies ...
... Africa , and went far to- wards creating a land empire in Spain . Carthage fell before Rome , which beginning as a city , ended as a world - the Mediterranean world . Rome made an empire of more or less well - governed de- pendencies ...
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Page 660 - let the sovereign authority of this country be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever—except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 97 - no kind of traffic Would I admit, no name of magistrate, Letters should not be known, riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none: • *•*•• • All things in common Nature should produce Without sweat or
Page 658 - and with the advice and consent of Parliament, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonys...
Page 190 - should be regulated as between themselves. The principle was that the discovery gave title to the Government by whose subjects or by whose authority it was made, against all other European Governments, which title might be consummated by possession.
Page 777 - by a line drawn due north from its source to the highlands, "which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the River St Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean". The
Page 329 - The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbados, the infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.. . . The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of a hundred climates..
Page 536 - with the consent of the natives to take possession of convenient situations in the country in the name of the King of Great Britain; or, if you find the country uninhabited, take possession for His Majesty by setting up proper marks and inscriptions, as first discoverers and possessors".
Page 181 - For that their [the Spaniards'] having touched only here and there upon a coast, and given names to a few rivers or capes, were such insignificant things as could in no ways entitle them to a propriety further than in the parts where they actually settled and continued to inhabit.
Page 149 - The Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America", which
Page 154 - In these hard and difficult beginnings they found some discontents and murmurings arise amongst some, and mutinous speeches and carriage in others; but they were soon quelled and overcome by the wisdom, patience and just and equal carriage of things by the governor and better part which clave faithfully together in the main.