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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONIES UNDER
THE FIRST GEORGES, 1714-1755
BY CECIL HEADLAM, M.A., Editor of the Calendar of
State Papers, Colonial Series.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XIV
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE EMPIRE, 1660-1763
BY CHARLES M. ANDREWS, L.H.D.
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THE ENGLISH SLAVE TRADE AND THE
AFRICAN SETTLEMENTS
By EVELINE C. MARTIN, M.A., Ph.D., Lecturer in History in
Westfield College, University of London.
The Slave Trade as the Foundation of West Indian Prosperity
Sir Nicholas Crisp's Guinea Company
French, Dutch and English on the Gold Coast
Methods of the Slave Trade
The Royal African Company's Monopoly
The English Ports and the Slave Trade
The Company of Merchants trading to Africa
Defective Knowledge of the Interior
The Government of Senegambia
War with the French and Dutch
Change in British Relations with Africa
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CHAPTER XVI
THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR
By W. F. REDDAWAY, M.A.
The Decade after the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle
Franco-British Antagonism
The Problem of Alliances
French and British in America
Washington at Fort Necessity
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Growing Tension between France and Great Britain .
The Convention of Westminster
The Advent of William Pitt
Anglo-Prussian Co-operation
Pitt and Frederick the Great
British Victories in 1758
Pitt and the French Invasion
Victories of 1759
CHAPTER XVII
THE PEACE OF PARIS
By H. W. V. TEMPERLEY, O.B.E., Litt.D., F.B.A., Reader in
Modern History, Fellow of Peterhouse.
SEA POWER AND EXPANSION, 1660-1763
By J. HOLLAND ROSE, Litt.D.
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THE GROWTH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. MARI-
TIME RIGHTS AND COLONIAL TITLES, 1648-1763
By A. PEARCE HIGGINS, C.B.E., LL.D., K.C.
MERCANTILISM AND THE COLONIES
By J. F. REES, M.A., M.Com., Professor of Commerce
in the University of Birmingham.
Mercantilism as the Economic Expression of militant Nationalism
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CHAPTER XXI
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE EMPIRE-
FROM BACON TO BLACKSTONE
By J. EWING, M.A., Professor of History in Rhodes University
College, Grahamstown, South Africa.