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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... effect of European events was only indirect and English domestic troubles exercised the chief influence . During the reign of James I the comparative paucity of emigration proved that the plea of the early advocates for colonisation as ...
... effect of European events was only indirect and English domestic troubles exercised the chief influence . During the reign of James I the comparative paucity of emigration proved that the plea of the early advocates for colonisation as ...
Page 238
... effect , the modern English alliance with that country , which proved a great asset in the naval wars and mercantile competition of the eighteenth century . It also definitely closed a period of estrangement which had endured since the ...
... effect , the modern English alliance with that country , which proved a great asset in the naval wars and mercantile competition of the eighteenth century . It also definitely closed a period of estrangement which had endured since the ...
Page 811
... effects of the navigation laws we have here nothing to do ; still less with their influence upon political develop ... effect that buccaneer- ing and piracy were winked at . A broad distinction must be drawn between privateering and ...
... effects of the navigation laws we have here nothing to do ; still less with their influence upon political develop ... effect that buccaneer- ing and piracy were winked at . A broad distinction must be drawn between privateering and ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 22 |
The Newfoundland Fishery | 29 |
The Western Adventurers | 35 |
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