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Paul M. Kennedy. So , too , did the British government under Pitt and his successors , whose fiscal and taxation policies contrived to stimulate and to partake in the benefits of the country's increasing prosperity ; there was , after ...
Paul M. Kennedy. So , too , did the British government under Pitt and his successors , whose fiscal and taxation policies contrived to stimulate and to partake in the benefits of the country's increasing prosperity ; there was , after ...
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... British government's clever and unselfish exertion of its naval and commercial strength , nor to the prevailing concern of other governments with internal problems , but also to the preoccupation of virtually all European statesmen with ...
... British government's clever and unselfish exertion of its naval and commercial strength , nor to the prevailing concern of other governments with internal problems , but also to the preoccupation of virtually all European statesmen with ...
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... British government failed to recall Salisbury's adage that nothing was more disastrous in a changing scene than clinging to the carcasses of past policies . Step by step the British retreated – or rather stumbled back to their island ...
... British government failed to recall Salisbury's adage that nothing was more disastrous in a changing scene than clinging to the carcasses of past policies . Step by step the British retreated – or rather stumbled back to their island ...
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Definition of the term sea power and its various stages the Navalist emphasis upon | 9 |
List of Maps | 19 |
The strategy of the AngloSpanish War 15851603 | 31 |
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