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Page x - Senegambia, on the island of St Mary, at the mouth of the River Gambia, exports gum, ivory, wax, hides, gold, tortoise-shell, rice, cotton, teak, palm-oil, and native cloths.
Page vii - ... and at the time of the Conquest. The survey was commenced in 1080, and completed in 1086., Cinque Ports— Courts Established— Public Buildings— Bayeaux Tapestry. To guard against invasion, William fortified the Cinque Ports — Dover, Hastings, Romney, Hythe, and Sandwich. The Channel Islands, off the coast of France, are all that now remain to Britain of the Norman possessions of the Conqueror. The Courts of Chancery and Exchequer were established in the reign of William; the former was...
Page viii - ... on the most brutal methods of primitive capital accumulation, so poignantly and acutely described by Marx in Capital Volume I, and other writings, had almost ended. However, it still continued to operate in colonial countries like India, but with a changed stance, and some modification, after power was transferred from the East India Company, to the British Crown and British Parliament. This changed stance and some modification was adopted to subserve the changed economic, trade, political, military...
Page viii - Holy Land), an island belonging to Germany, in the North Sea, about 40 miles from the mouth of the Elbe ; 1 mile long and 1/3 mile broad ; highest point 200 feet. Its rocks present a perpendicular face to the sea, but are being rapidly corroded by the waves. The inhabitants, of Frisian descent, are mainly fishers and pilots, but the town is a popular bathing resort. Heligoland was captured by Britain...
Page ix - Australia in terms which were an open invitation to colonize the region, and in 1788 the first British settlement was established at Port Jackson in New South Wales.
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| Title | Atlas of the British empire throughout the world Empire online: Race, class, imperialism and colonialism, 1607-2007 |
| Author | John Bartholomew |
| Publisher | George Philip and Son, 1868 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jun 12, 2006 |
| Length | 16 pages |
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