The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 3John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... China Navigation Co. ( Butterfield & Swire ) , established in 1872 , and the Indo - China Steam Naviga- tion Co. ( Jardine Matheson & Co. ) , established in 1881. Shanghai and Hong Kong were the chief centres of our economic activities ...
... China Navigation Co. ( Butterfield & Swire ) , established in 1872 , and the Indo - China Steam Naviga- tion Co. ( Jardine Matheson & Co. ) , established in 1881. Shanghai and Hong Kong were the chief centres of our economic activities ...
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... China's independence was unlikely to survive if China were left to her own devices ; and since 1895 she had hardly known where to turn to preserve her interests . Some , like Curzon , had advocated a more forceful policy , by which she ...
... China's independence was unlikely to survive if China were left to her own devices ; and since 1895 she had hardly known where to turn to preserve her interests . Some , like Curzon , had advocated a more forceful policy , by which she ...
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... China . Other leases of Chinese territory , e.g. Port Arthur to Russia , Kaulmang to Great Britain , Kiauchau to ... China . Though the exercise of administrative rights over the territories leased was relinquished by China to the lessee ...
... China . Other leases of Chinese territory , e.g. Port Arthur to Russia , Kaulmang to Great Britain , Kiauchau to ... China . Though the exercise of administrative rights over the territories leased was relinquished by China to the lessee ...
Contents
Dual character of the Empire by 1870 | 5 |
The Commonwealth of the 1920s as the project of a worldstate | 11 |
Lord Kimberley | 31 |
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