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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... Plantations , trade came in front of Plantations . In the sixteenth century the chief foreign menace to England had come from Spain . In the eighteenth century it came from France . Throughout a large part of the seventeenth century the ...
... Plantations , trade came in front of Plantations . In the sixteenth century the chief foreign menace to England had come from Spain . In the eighteenth century it came from France . Throughout a large part of the seventeenth century the ...
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... Plantations , but Plantations were in- terpreted in terms of trade . This was not the view of the Plantations themselves . To them the Navigation Laws became in a growing degree a practical nuisance , only to be tolerated in so far as ...
... Plantations , but Plantations were in- terpreted in terms of trade . This was not the view of the Plantations themselves . To them the Navigation Laws became in a growing degree a practical nuisance , only to be tolerated in so far as ...
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... PLANTATIONS 605 Utopian schemes of government . He was too conscious of his own defects to pasture on illusions , and he knew that the process of transporting a man to a new world would not change his nature . His scientific mind ...
... PLANTATIONS 605 Utopian schemes of government . He was too conscious of his own defects to pasture on illusions , and he knew that the process of transporting a man to a new world would not change his nature . His scientific mind ...
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