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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... European organisation . However , the age of discovery coming when it did , the channel into which the quickened imagination of the time directed the energy of Europeans was that of national expansion into other continents . The ...
... European organisation . However , the age of discovery coming when it did , the channel into which the quickened imagination of the time directed the energy of Europeans was that of national expansion into other continents . The ...
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... Europe . The peculiar and striking complexity of European politics after Utrecht may be ascribed to many causes other than the waning factor of religion and exhaustion after a quarter of a century of war . 1 The history of Cardinal ...
... Europe . The peculiar and striking complexity of European politics after Utrecht may be ascribed to many causes other than the waning factor of religion and exhaustion after a quarter of a century of war . 1 The history of Cardinal ...
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... European Powers , left the ex- ploration of the interior until conditions changed at the end of the eighteenth century . By 1750 the Africa that was known to Western Europe , apart from Mediterranean Africa , consisted of a well ...
... European Powers , left the ex- ploration of the interior until conditions changed at the end of the eighteenth century . By 1750 the Africa that was known to Western Europe , apart from Mediterranean Africa , consisted of a well ...
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