A Short History of British Expansion

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

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CHAPTER PA8K	3

The Later Plantaoenets 13071399	12

Lancaster and York 13991485	22

Authorities for Part I	34

treaties with Flanders	41

decline and virtual extinction	47

The Turkey Company 1581 Venice Company 1583 Levant Com	53

The English Discoveries 14851547 The Navy 14851558	67

From the English Revolution to the Treaty of Utrecht	325

Progress of the colonies 16881713	331

From the Treaty op Utrecht to the Fall of Walpole	338

The Old French Colonial Empire	350

The AngloFrench Struggle in India 862	362

ii Clive in Bengal	372

the ethics of the age	378

iii Lally and the fall of French India	379

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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Title	A Short History of British Expansion
Author	James Alexander Williamson
Publisher	Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1922
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	18 Jun 2010
Length	645 pages

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