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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... land colonisation went forward , and unbridged distance from the original metropolis or mother city was substituted for the more or less continuous widening out from a dominating centre which characterised the land empires of the ...
... land colonisation went forward , and unbridged distance from the original metropolis or mother city was substituted for the more or less continuous widening out from a dominating centre which characterised the land empires of the ...
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... land hunger . In New England land could be had almost for the asking , and it could be profitably cultivated in much the same way as at home . If a man went to Virginia or the West Indies , he had to serve a long apprenticeship under ...
... land hunger . In New England land could be had almost for the asking , and it could be profitably cultivated in much the same way as at home . If a man went to Virginia or the West Indies , he had to serve a long apprenticeship under ...
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... LAND SYSTEM 805 was well stated by a clergyman writing to the Society for the Pro- pagation of the Gospel ( 11 April ... land which showed how speculation taking advantage of a lenient Government could debauch a land system . It must be ...
... LAND SYSTEM 805 was well stated by a clergyman writing to the Society for the Pro- pagation of the Gospel ( 11 April ... land which showed how speculation taking advantage of a lenient Government could debauch a land system . It must be ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 22 |
The Newfoundland Fishery | 29 |
The Western Adventurers | 35 |
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