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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Page 181
... position , her industrial leadership , her far- extended possessions and her growing store of loanable capital gave her during this period a position of signal influence and import- ance . Peace was her prime interest , for it was the ...
... position , her industrial leadership , her far- extended possessions and her growing store of loanable capital gave her during this period a position of signal influence and import- ance . Peace was her prime interest , for it was the ...
Page 222
... position in the economic activities of the Western world . That position was not built on a rock , but on the shifting foundations of international trade . Her chief exports were machinery , ships and rails , made from her coal and her ...
... position in the economic activities of the Western world . That position was not built on a rock , but on the shifting foundations of international trade . Her chief exports were machinery , ships and rails , made from her coal and her ...
Page 273
... position towards Italy and , through Italy , to the Triple Alliance .... If England was to become more cold to Italy ... or were to give any indication of likelihood that she would give even a moral preference to France in the event of ...
... position towards Italy and , through Italy , to the Triple Alliance .... If England was to become more cold to Italy ... or were to give any indication of likelihood that she would give even a moral preference to France in the event of ...
Contents
Dual character of the Empire by 1870 | 5 |
The Commonwealth of the 1920s as the project of a worldstate | 11 |
Lord Kimberley | 31 |
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