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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... Sugar - British and Foreign Competitive Weakness of British Sugar Significance of the Molasses Act Restrictions on Colonial Iron Manufacture Growing Importance of the Continental Colonies Guadeloupe versus Canada . Effects of Commercial ...
... Sugar - British and Foreign Competitive Weakness of British Sugar Significance of the Molasses Act Restrictions on Colonial Iron Manufacture Growing Importance of the Continental Colonies Guadeloupe versus Canada . Effects of Commercial ...
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... sugar ; the reign of cotton was yet to come . Though , as the century grew older , the riches which flowed from India into Britain grew rapidly in volume , yet almost to the end the West Indies bulked larger as a source of wealth and of ...
... sugar ; the reign of cotton was yet to come . Though , as the century grew older , the riches which flowed from India into Britain grew rapidly in volume , yet almost to the end the West Indies bulked larger as a source of wealth and of ...
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... sugar interest , further threatened as it was by the development of the beet sugar industry on the continent of Europe . The last years of the eighteenth century handed on to the nineteenth a great awakening of Protestant mis- sionary ...
... sugar interest , further threatened as it was by the development of the beet sugar industry on the continent of Europe . The last years of the eighteenth century handed on to the nineteenth a great awakening of Protestant mis- sionary ...
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... sugar interest , and the interest of the East Indian nabobs . It is true that there was no need of an empire in order to create trade monopolies , that without any British colonies there might have been a large British carrying trade in ...
... sugar interest , and the interest of the East Indian nabobs . It is true that there was no need of an empire in order to create trade monopolies , that without any British colonies there might have been a large British carrying trade in ...
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... sugar from the former and woad from the latter.1 Portugal , however , prohibited access to Madeira and the African coast . As the sixteenth century advanced , the difficulties besetting the English merchants in Spain became serious ...
... sugar from the former and woad from the latter.1 Portugal , however , prohibited access to Madeira and the African coast . As the sixteenth century advanced , the difficulties besetting the English merchants in Spain became serious ...
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