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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interest ; but before the war ended , it had cost £ 234 millions , of which India paid about £ 18 } millions and Great ... inherited unsolved problems and costly obligations for the protection and extension of imperial interests .
interest ; but before the war ended , it had cost £ 234 millions , of which India paid about £ 18 } millions and Great ... inherited unsolved problems and costly obligations for the protection and extension of imperial interests .
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German commercial interests in the Transvaal , already considerable when Bismarck had signed a trade treaty with the Boers in 1885 , had grown rapidly with the discovery of the Rand gold - fields , the development of the Transvaal ...
German commercial interests in the Transvaal , already considerable when Bismarck had signed a trade treaty with the Boers in 1885 , had grown rapidly with the discovery of the Rand gold - fields , the development of the Transvaal ...
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a from serious divergences between the outlook and interests of Great Britain and Germany which Chamberlain , with his narrow experience at the Colonial Office and his absorption in the Far East and with trade , did not wholly ...
a from serious divergences between the outlook and interests of Great Britain and Germany which Chamberlain , with his narrow experience at the Colonial Office and his absorption in the Far East and with trade , did not wholly ...
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