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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By water far more than by land colonisation went forward , and unbridged distance from the original metropolis or mother city was substituted for the more or less continuous widening out from a dominating centre which characterised the ...
By water far more than by land colonisation went forward , and unbridged distance from the original metropolis or mother city was substituted for the more or less continuous widening out from a dominating centre which characterised the ...
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The England of the seventeenth century was an agricultural country ; most Englishmen lived under rural conditions and were filled like all countrymen with land hunger . In New England land could be had almost for the asking , and it ...
The England of the seventeenth century was an agricultural country ; most Englishmen lived under rural conditions and were filled like all countrymen with land hunger . In New England land could be had almost for the asking , and it ...
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In St Vincent the division of lands roused the resentment of the natives . ... from North America were they compelled to acknowledge British supremacy , and to accept the reserves of land assigned to them in the north of the island .
In St Vincent the division of lands roused the resentment of the natives . ... from North America were they compelled to acknowledge British supremacy , and to accept the reserves of land assigned to them in the north of the island .
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 9 |
ENGLAND AND THE OPENING OF THE ATLANTIC | 22 |
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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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