A Short History of British Expansion

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Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1922 - Colonial companies - 645 pages
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Contents

iii Voyages of discovery under Henry VIII
74
ii The African trade
82
The Widening Field of Commerce 15471558
87
_ TheMuscovy Company and its trade
90
Trade by Force op Arms and the Reprisals for Spanish Exclusive
98
iii The war of reprisals
105
Cavendish Chidley Sir Richard Hawkins
112
CHAPTER PAOE
113
collapse of the Company
119
vTILElizabethan Attempts at Colonization
125
The Spanish War 15851603
134
Authorities for Part II
147
LGeneral Scrvey of English Expansion under James I
153
Virginia and Maryland 16241649
181
CHAPIEE PAGE
188
Endicott in New England
194
The Rhode Island Charter 1644
200
his expedition of 161718
208
OHAPTEE PAGK
214
Period of separate development 185080 531
216
polioy of Coen
220
Madras 1639 Orissa and Bengal 225
225
Maritime Discovery in the First Half of the Seventeenth
231
Buttons voyage
237
CHAPTER PAQE
240
The Restored Stuarts and the Shaping of the Mercantile System
255
The Extension of English Colonization 16601688
272
proprietary grant of 1664
278
The Frame of Government
284
political abuses the Arlington grant
294
The Great Trading Companies under the Restoration
304
ii The African Companies
311
iv The Regulated Companies
317
The Problem of Indian Government 17601784
408
Sir Philip Francis
414
CHAPTER PAGB
418
The American Revolt 17631778
428
The Fall of the Mercantile Empire 17781783
444
Authorities for Part IV
457
CHAPTER PAGE
463
Canada
484
CHAPTER PAGE
490
ii The failure of Representative Government 18151840
492
iii The establishment of Responsible Government 18411854
498
v The growth of Canada
503
fishery disputes population
509
iii New South Wales and its offshoots 18241859
517
i
523
Plans for South Australia 18315
530
Contrast between Canadian and Australian conditions
532
ii The Pacific Islands
543
The British and Australasian points of view
548
ii The two colonies and the two republics 18361872
555
mining the Suez Canal
560
the Jameson Raid 18956 its results
566
parties Botha and Smuts
572
Conservative policy 180514
579
ii The frontiers 18581920
586
Indian Councils Act 1909 the Delhi Durbar 1911
592
CHAPTER PAGE
598
ii East Central and West Africa
604
Nigeria
609
HongKong Weihaiwei the mandatory regions
615
Authorities for Part V
629
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TitleA Short History of British Expansion
AuthorJames Alexander Williamson
PublisherMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1922
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized18 Jun 2010
Length645 pages
  
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