Since then, they have been isolated for thousands of yea.rs perhaps, and have evolved their own peculiarities, some prob- ably in response to their difficult life in high latitudes and sealed as they are for five-sixths of the year under thick ice. Their eyes, nostrils and lateral-line ...
This pamphlet has been compiled in response to the need for a handy, lightweight dictionary of Colonial terms to use while reading documents. This is a supplement to the first edition with additional words and phrases included. Refer to pages 57 and 58 for the most commonly used phrases in ...
In 1764, the British Parliament began to impose taxes on the colonists to compensate for the losses in the French-Indian War. The Sugar Act was implemented which raised taxes on British goods imported to the colonies, including sugar, wine, coffee, dye, and cloth. After few months, the Sta...
We pose the question: How did British colonialism impact the nature of choices and challenges confronting Jamaican policymakers as they grappled with a national response to healthcare post-independence? To answer this, we follow developments across two periods: the colonial, which concluded in 1962,...
There is, of course, a ready answer to the criticism advanced above. It is that teachers have learned from bitter experience how little history their pupils retain as they pass along the regular route.No teacher of history will deny this.Still it is a standing challenge to existing methods ...
In the present study, we examine the return on investments in an Asian colony, British Malaya, from 1889 to 1969 for a large sample of companies. Our results suggest that the return on invest- ments in Malaya might have been among the highest in the world during the period studied. ...
Taxes to fill the exchequer's coffers were the reason for Yorktown's founding—but also why some Yorktown citizens joined the boycotts of English imports that gained momentum after England imposed the Sugar and Stamp Acts in the 1760s. War between Great Britain and its American colonies began...
such as tobacco and sugar, in the British market. In return, they were expected to conduct all their trade by means of English ships and to serve as markets for British manufactured goods. TheNavigation Actof 1651 andsubsequentacts set up a closed economy between Britain and its colonies; al...
International condemnation of the action was swift and widespread, and, before a week had passed, Maduro compelled the court to revoke its declaration. Massive street protests, which erupted in response to the court’s attempt to dissolve the National Assembly and continued in April when Capriles...