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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1 This was Adam Smith's guarded estimate of the natural advantages of England for foreign trade , published in the Wealth of Nations at the time when the old British Empire was coming to an end . Through the centuries the world had ...
1 This was Adam Smith's guarded estimate of the natural advantages of England for foreign trade , published in the Wealth of Nations at the time when the old British Empire was coming to an end . Through the centuries the world had ...
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With Henry VII and his dynasty we come to the immediate prelude to the 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 .
With Henry VII and his dynasty we come to the immediate prelude to the 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 .
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not take into consideration how that future could be safeguarded if other competing European nations possessed empires while we had none . In any case without an empire Great Britain would have been very much poorer in one important ...
not take into consideration how that future could be safeguarded if other competing European nations possessed empires while we had none . In any case without an empire Great Britain would have been very much poorer in one important ...
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose |
| 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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