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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... imperial power may be found in the unity , the law , the institutions , and the sea instinct , of which she became possessed in the Middle Ages , it was not until late in the fifteenth century that her oceanic expansion began . It is ...
... imperial power may be found in the unity , the law , the institutions , and the sea instinct , of which she became possessed in the Middle Ages , it was not until late in the fifteenth century that her oceanic expansion began . It is ...
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... imperial statesmanship of the Interregnum certain permanent results may be traced . The intrusion of the Dutch into the economy of the Empire was checked but not completely ended . The means for their exclusion was provided , but it was ...
... imperial statesmanship of the Interregnum certain permanent results may be traced . The intrusion of the Dutch into the economy of the Empire was checked but not completely ended . The means for their exclusion was provided , but it was ...
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... IMPERIAL RECONSTRUCTION , 1763-5 AN Empire of vast extent had been won . Its acquisition brought with it new problems of expenditure , of administration , and defence . Attempts to solve those problems provoked a constitutional struggle ...
... IMPERIAL RECONSTRUCTION , 1763-5 AN Empire of vast extent had been won . Its acquisition brought with it new problems of expenditure , of administration , and defence . Attempts to solve those problems provoked a constitutional struggle ...
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