The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... West Indies was considerable . Already by the middle of the eighteenth century the possibility of recovering the wealth of a hundred years before had practically disappeared . The decline in the Spanish trade meant continual ...
... West Indies was considerable . Already by the middle of the eighteenth century the possibility of recovering the wealth of a hundred years before had practically disappeared . The decline in the Spanish trade meant continual ...
Page 379
... WEST INDIES 379 of economic and social development . During the first half of the eighteenth century the tide of prosperity in the West Indies rose rapidly to the flood . In wealth , as in strategic importance , they sur- passed the ...
... WEST INDIES 379 of economic and social development . During the first half of the eighteenth century the tide of prosperity in the West Indies rose rapidly to the flood . In wealth , as in strategic importance , they sur- passed the ...
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... West Indies , in the years 1802 and 1803 , giving a particular account of the Bahama Islands . London , 1804 . OLDMIXON , J. The British Empire in America .... 2 vols . London , 1708. Later ✓ ed . London , 1741 . PERRIN , W. The ...
... West Indies , in the years 1802 and 1803 , giving a particular account of the Bahama Islands . London , 1804 . OLDMIXON , J. The British Empire in America .... 2 vols . London , 1708. Later ✓ ed . London , 1741 . PERRIN , W. The ...
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