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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... company . At the very end of the century of beginnings , 31 December 1600 , the greatest of all English Companies , the East India Company , was incorporated by Queen Elizabeth , and England entered consistently on the course of empire ...
... company . At the very end of the century of beginnings , 31 December 1600 , the greatest of all English Companies , the East India Company , was incorporated by Queen Elizabeth , and England entered consistently on the course of empire ...
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... East , where there were no Plantations in the wider sense , trade surely though very slowly carried the English on to empire , and before the century ended the East India Company began to contemplate the necessity of a limited ...
... East , where there were no Plantations in the wider sense , trade surely though very slowly carried the English on to empire , and before the century ended the East India Company began to contemplate the necessity of a limited ...
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... East India Company has filled the largest space in our history . Shaftesbury and his partners were responsible for ... co - operation with the North American colonists had been most ineffective . Little was done under their eyes ...
... East India Company has filled the largest space in our history . Shaftesbury and his partners were responsible for ... co - operation with the North American colonists had been most ineffective . Little was done under their eyes ...
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... century , but otherwise the companies which helped to make the history of these years were in the main en- larged versions of the old companies . With the East India Company , trade led on to territorial dominion , territorial dominion to.
... century , but otherwise the companies which helped to make the history of these years were in the main en- larged versions of the old companies . With the East India Company , trade led on to territorial dominion , territorial dominion to.
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... company system as an agency for making an empire . In the West Indies were ... India into Britain grew rapidly in volume , yet almost to the end the West Indies bulked larger as a source of wealth and ... East India 1Ο INTRODUCTION.
... company system as an agency for making an empire . In the West Indies were ... India into Britain grew rapidly in volume , yet almost to the end the West Indies bulked larger as a source of wealth and ... East India 1Ο INTRODUCTION.
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