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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Page 580
... sugar trade were sufficiently bewildering . In the closing decades of the seventeenth century England had enjoyed the leading place as the purveyor of sugar to the European countries . She greatly valued the benefits arising from the ...
... sugar trade were sufficiently bewildering . In the closing decades of the seventeenth century England had enjoyed the leading place as the purveyor of sugar to the European countries . She greatly valued the benefits arising from the ...
Page 581
... sugar . Great Britain had as a matter of fact bestowed substantial preference on British West Indian sugar , but no general law restricted either the mother country or the colonies as to what sugar they should import . Each colony ...
... sugar . Great Britain had as a matter of fact bestowed substantial preference on British West Indian sugar , but no general law restricted either the mother country or the colonies as to what sugar they should import . Each colony ...
Page 582
... sugar , rum or molasses . The planters did not realise that it was futile to attempt to keep up prices unless they could control the supply of sugar . The exclusion of French sugar from the British West Indies merely drove it to other ...
... sugar , rum or molasses . The planters did not realise that it was futile to attempt to keep up prices unless they could control the supply of sugar . The exclusion of French sugar from the British West Indies merely drove it to other ...
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