The Annual Register, Volume 142Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1901 - Books Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... Relations of Ministers , and War Expenditure - Front Opposition Bench Differences— Close of Century • [ 183 SCOTLAND AND IRELAND CHAPTER VI . [ 248 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL HISTORY . FRANCE AND ITALY GERMANY AND vi CONTENTS.
... Relations of Ministers , and War Expenditure - Front Opposition Bench Differences— Close of Century • [ 183 SCOTLAND AND IRELAND CHAPTER VI . [ 248 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL HISTORY . FRANCE AND ITALY GERMANY AND vi CONTENTS.
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Edmund Burke. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL HISTORY . FRANCE AND ITALY GERMANY AND AUSTRIA - HUNGARY CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II . CHAPTER III . • page [ 257 RUSSIA TURKEY AND THE MINOR STATES OF EASTERN EUROPE CHAPTER IV . MINOR STATES OF EUROPE ...
Edmund Burke. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL HISTORY . FRANCE AND ITALY GERMANY AND AUSTRIA - HUNGARY CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II . CHAPTER III . • page [ 257 RUSSIA TURKEY AND THE MINOR STATES OF EASTERN EUROPE CHAPTER IV . MINOR STATES OF EUROPE ...
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... Italy , the ally of Germany , had been invited to join with Great Britain in forcing Turkey to more humane treatment of her Armenian subjects . With the consent of Germany , and with the assurance of her support , Signor Crispi had ...
... Italy , the ally of Germany , had been invited to join with Great Britain in forcing Turkey to more humane treatment of her Armenian subjects . With the consent of Germany , and with the assurance of her support , Signor Crispi had ...
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... Italy , behind which Germany was standing , and ready to support her , impressed German statesmen and writers with such a sense of the selfish- ness of British policy that they came to the conclusion that no understanding with England ...
... Italy , behind which Germany was standing , and ready to support her , impressed German statesmen and writers with such a sense of the selfish- ness of British policy that they came to the conclusion that no understanding with England ...
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... Italy , and the populations were not satisfied . Were men who had fought as the Boers had done likely to acquiesce so tamely ? Mr. Gladstone had said that not one of the empires whose rise and fall had been recorded in history had owed ...
... Italy , and the populations were not satisfied . Were men who had fought as the Boers had done likely to acquiesce so tamely ? Mr. Gladstone had said that not one of the empires whose rise and fall had been recorded in history had owed ...
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