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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... European organisation . However , the age of discovery coming when it did , the channel into which the quickened imagination of the time directed the energy of Europeans was that of national expansion into other continents . The ...
... European organisation . However , the age of discovery coming when it did , the channel into which the quickened imagination of the time directed the energy of Europeans was that of national expansion into other continents . The ...
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... Europe . The peculiar and striking complexity of European politics after Utrecht may be ascribed to many causes other than the waning factor of religion and exhaustion after a quarter of a century of war . 1 The history of Cardinal ...
... Europe . The peculiar and striking complexity of European politics after Utrecht may be ascribed to many causes other than the waning factor of religion and exhaustion after a quarter of a century of war . 1 The history of Cardinal ...
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... European territory which had been achieved by any European power " since Europe had been Christian . If Silesia remained Prussian , European anarchy would begin . His Most Christian Majesty , indeed , the Habsburgs ' hereditary foe ...
... European territory which had been achieved by any European power " since Europe had been Christian . If Silesia remained Prussian , European anarchy would begin . His Most Christian Majesty , indeed , the Habsburgs ' hereditary foe ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 22 |
The Newfoundland Fishery | 29 |
The Western Adventurers | 35 |
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