The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... Empire was coming to an end . Through the centuries the world had known a variety of empires , but empires and colonisation had no necessary concern with each other . No element of colonisation , other than the forcible deportation of ...
... Empire was coming to an end . Through the centuries the world had known a variety of empires , but empires and colonisation had no necessary concern with each other . No element of colonisation , other than the forcible deportation of ...
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... Empire , and it will be well to notice what developments in the Tudor Age were essential preliminaries to the particular kind of empire which came into being . For the founding of an empire it was necessary that England should turn her ...
... Empire , and it will be well to notice what developments in the Tudor Age were essential preliminaries to the particular kind of empire which came into being . For the founding of an empire it was necessary that England should turn her ...
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... empire Great Britain would have been very much poorer in one important respect . An unsurpassed opportunity for calling out and developing the best British qualities would have been wanting . It may be said again that , without the Empire ...
... empire Great Britain would have been very much poorer in one important respect . An unsurpassed opportunity for calling out and developing the best British qualities would have been wanting . It may be said again that , without the Empire ...
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