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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2 THE WEST INDIES 379 of economic and social development . During the first half of the eighteenth century the tide of prosperity in the West Indies rose rapidly to the flood . In wealth , as in strategic importance , they surpassed the ...
2 THE WEST INDIES 379 of economic and social development . During the first half of the eighteenth century the tide of prosperity in the West Indies rose rapidly to the flood . In wealth , as in strategic importance , they surpassed the ...
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McKINNEN , D. A Tour through the British West Indies , in the years 1802 and 1803 , giving a particular account of the Bahama Islands . London , 1804 . OLDMIXON , J. The British Empire in America .... 2 vols .
McKINNEN , D. A Tour through the British West Indies , in the years 1802 and 1803 , giving a particular account of the Bahama Islands . London , 1804 . OLDMIXON , J. The British Empire in America .... 2 vols .
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The West Indies . 2nd ed . rev . by C. Atchley . Oxford , 1905 . MALCOLM , H. " The Bahamas House of Assembly . " Empire Review , March 1905 . NEWTON , A. P. Colonizing Activities of the English Puritans . New Haven , 1914 .
The West Indies . 2nd ed . rev . by C. Atchley . Oxford , 1905 . MALCOLM , H. " The Bahamas House of Assembly . " Empire Review , March 1905 . NEWTON , A. P. Colonizing Activities of the English Puritans . New Haven , 1914 .
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