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With free trade in the ascendant and colonial rivalries abated, the British Empire
seemed likely to resolve itself into a partnership of free nations having
insignificant responsibilities outside their own borders except to guard the routes
of ocean ...
With free trade in the ascendant and colonial rivalries abated, the British Empire
seemed likely to resolve itself into a partnership of free nations having
insignificant responsibilities outside their own borders except to guard the routes
of ocean ...
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Next in importance may rank the abandonment of the old mercantile system with
that central direction of commercial policy which for generations had seemed the
main compensation for the cares and burdens of empire . Almost simultaneous ...
Next in importance may rank the abandonment of the old mercantile system with
that central direction of commercial policy which for generations had seemed the
main compensation for the cares and burdens of empire . Almost simultaneous ...
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For the moment , however , his personality seemed to dominate the ranks behind
him . Even Lord Salisbury had been drawn against persistent conviction to
countenance the Forward policy of those in his own party whom privately he still ...
For the moment , however , his personality seemed to dominate the ranks behind
him . Even Lord Salisbury had been drawn against persistent conviction to
countenance the Forward policy of those in his own party whom privately he still ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Cocoa palmoil The Colonial Office preserves peasant economy | 3 |
The AngloRussian agreement and its effects | 7 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 3 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Arthur Percival Newton |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 948 pages |
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