The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 3John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... Europe . After 1878 , even more than in the years since 1871 , the European Powers shrank from serious European conflicts for more than thirty years , during which period they sought security against the complications of modern warfare ...
... Europe . After 1878 , even more than in the years since 1871 , the European Powers shrank from serious European conflicts for more than thirty years , during which period they sought security against the complications of modern warfare ...
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... European expansion by the European Powers . The German Government , losing its old domination of international arrangements in Europe , was tempted to think that it would be unsafe to remain a mere spectator of the race beyond Europe ...
... European expansion by the European Powers . The German Government , losing its old domination of international arrangements in Europe , was tempted to think that it would be unsafe to remain a mere spectator of the race beyond Europe ...
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... European interests , was a Continental Power . Her main consideration being the security of her frontiers , her chief aim was to divert the other European Powers from the Continent . Because she could not be certain of achieving this ...
... European interests , was a Continental Power . Her main consideration being the security of her frontiers , her chief aim was to divert the other European Powers from the Continent . Because she could not be certain of achieving this ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Dual character of the Empire by 1870 | 11 |
The Commonwealth of the 1920s as the project of a worldstate | 17 |
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