The Cambridge History of the British Empire: The Empire-Commonwealth, 1870-1919John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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ANNEXATIONS IN THE SOUTH SEAS 45 Commodore Goodenough and Consul Layard , had presented their report . ... settlers were in favour of the cession of the islands to Great Britain and they recommended their annexation as a Crown colony .
ANNEXATIONS IN THE SOUTH SEAS 45 Commodore Goodenough and Consul Layard , had presented their report . ... settlers were in favour of the cession of the islands to Great Britain and they recommended their annexation as a Crown colony .
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He could have wished that the President and Volksraad had themselves proposed the annexation , but he could “ well understand that this was impossible . In the face of these avowals and exhortations , what are we to make of Carnarvon's ...
He could have wished that the President and Volksraad had themselves proposed the annexation , but he could “ well understand that this was impossible . In the face of these avowals and exhortations , what are we to make of Carnarvon's ...
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It will be apparent that all these new institutions of public law were from one point of view mere devices of diplomacy ; they offered a means of acquiring sufficient power where downright annexation was thought to be politically ...
It will be apparent that all these new institutions of public law were from one point of view mere devices of diplomacy ; they offered a means of acquiring sufficient power where downright annexation was thought to be politically ...
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire: The Empire-Commonwealth, 1870-1919 Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Arthur Percival Newton |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1929 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2009 |
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