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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... enterprise , a fact which had an influence upon the rapid commercial advance of the capital during the Tudor period . It may be said in general that the North Sea trades , handicapped though they were by foreign competition , were yet ...
... enterprise , a fact which had an influence upon the rapid commercial advance of the capital during the Tudor period . It may be said in general that the North Sea trades , handicapped though they were by foreign competition , were yet ...
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... ENTERPRISES 27 surmises with which so many commentators have been tempted to surround it . A number of independent ... enterprise drops completely out of view . The only clue to the nature of the expeditions is that they went to " the ...
... ENTERPRISES 27 surmises with which so many commentators have been tempted to surround it . A number of independent ... enterprise drops completely out of view . The only clue to the nature of the expeditions is that they went to " the ...
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... enterprise beyond the seas wherein our colonial history has differed from that of other Powers . Individual enterprise and independence of governmental help were as characteristic of the Elizabethan naval war as of the planting of ...
... enterprise beyond the seas wherein our colonial history has differed from that of other Powers . Individual enterprise and independence of governmental help were as characteristic of the Elizabethan naval war as of the planting of ...
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