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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With free trade in the ascendant and colonial rivalries abated , the British Empire seemed likely to resolve itself into a partnership of free nations having , insignificant responsibilities outside their own borders except to guard the ...
With free trade in the ascendant and colonial rivalries abated , the British Empire seemed likely to resolve itself into a partnership of free nations having , insignificant responsibilities outside their own borders except to guard the ...
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Next in importance may rank the abandonment of the old mercantile system with that central direction of commercial policy which for generations had seemed the main compensation for the cares and burdens of empire .
Next in importance may rank the abandonment of the old mercantile system with that central direction of commercial policy which for generations had seemed the main compensation for the cares and burdens of empire .
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For the moment , however , his personality seemed to dominate the ranks behind him . Even Lord Salisbury had been drawn against persistent conviction to countenance the Forward policy of those in his own party whom privately he still ...
For the moment , however , his personality seemed to dominate the ranks behind him . Even Lord Salisbury had been drawn against persistent conviction to countenance the Forward policy of those in his own party whom privately he still ...
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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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