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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... maritime State which , shaped amid the suc- cessive conflicts of modern history , has developed in the twentieth century into the British Commonwealth of Nations . A long story of colonisation and imperial policy , of the rise and ...
... maritime State which , shaped amid the suc- cessive conflicts of modern history , has developed in the twentieth century into the British Commonwealth of Nations . A long story of colonisation and imperial policy , of the rise and ...
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... maritime competitors of England . James I's attitude to Spain was quite different from that of Elizabeth . Spain at the beginning of the seventeenth century , though still a great Power , was not the danger she had been in the middle of ...
... maritime competitors of England . James I's attitude to Spain was quite different from that of Elizabeth . Spain at the beginning of the seventeenth century , though still a great Power , was not the danger she had been in the middle of ...
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... maritime tradition . In the seven- teenth century , a time of almost continuous peace , her mercantile interest had grown strong and accumulated capital . At the same time the more fortunate maritime States were demonstrating how great ...
... maritime tradition . In the seven- teenth century , a time of almost continuous peace , her mercantile interest had grown strong and accumulated capital . At the same time the more fortunate maritime States were demonstrating how great ...
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