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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... English race was reproduced in the New World . But plantation did not exhaust English activities overseas . Trade must not be ignored in reckoning up the account of the seventeenth century , and when at length , in 1696 , an agency with ...
... English race was reproduced in the New World . But plantation did not exhaust English activities overseas . Trade must not be ignored in reckoning up the account of the seventeenth century , and when at length , in 1696 , an agency with ...
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... English record for a century past . But their posterity can discern that the event does mark a definite stage in the growth of the English nation . After Bosworth certain fibres of the corporate life were dead , or withered and doomed ...
... English record for a century past . But their posterity can discern that the event does mark a definite stage in the growth of the English nation . After Bosworth certain fibres of the corporate life were dead , or withered and doomed ...
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... English mining , for example , began to be scientific in the reign of Elizabeth , and drew its instruction from the Fuggers ' men from Germany and its capital from London merchants who were profiting by the African and Caribbean trades ...
... English mining , for example , began to be scientific in the reign of Elizabeth , and drew its instruction from the Fuggers ' men from Germany and its capital from London merchants who were profiting by the African and Caribbean trades ...
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... English shipping . Under Henry VIII the North Sea trades made no great advance . English merchants in the Baltic and Germany remained subordinate to the Hansa which also competed keenly with them in the Netherlands . The western trades ...
... English shipping . Under Henry VIII the North Sea trades made no great advance . English merchants in the Baltic and Germany remained subordinate to the Hansa which also competed keenly with them in the Netherlands . The western trades ...
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... English Protestants and French Huguenots , which made the Channel and the Bay of Biscay a freebooters ' paradise and severed the best line of communication between the Habsburg dominions . The English share of trade with the Peninsula ...
... English Protestants and French Huguenots , which made the Channel and the Bay of Biscay a freebooters ' paradise and severed the best line of communication between the Habsburg dominions . The English share of trade with the Peninsula ...
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