[Hartford Probate] In 1728, tribal leadership, now in the hands of Cushoy, a descendant of Robin, monitored the expansion of colonial roads at Wangunk by being part of the survey and construction crews.
I wish Mitchell could resume where he left off eight years ago, but the death of Arafat, the decline of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, the 2006 Hezbollah-Israel war in Lebanon, the 2009 Hamas-Israel war in Gaza, the continued expansion of colonial Israeli settlements and the deepening involvement of Iran with Hamas and Hezbollah have all created a new reality.
Taking 10 cities around the world, from Liverpool and Dublin to Hong Kong and Melbourne, he uses them to explain the dizzying expansion of British colonial possessions from the 17th century onwards.
I will explore how potter communities in China linked to emerging maritime commercial enterprise adapt to the new demands and circumstances generated by early global trade and the expansion of Iberian colonial Enterprise by making innovations to their centuries old technological traditions.
The expansion of a colonial administrative apparatus and bureaucracy paralleled the economic reorganization.
Cromwell oversaw the "creative destruction" of the old economic order, the Western Design and policy of colonial expansion, the expansion of the financial capacity of the City of London and the unleashing of a Protestant work ethic which, Hill suggests, set in train the conditions for the industrial revolution and the British empire.
Questioning recent accounts of late Enlightenment "anticolonialism," she shows that late eighteenth-century French philosophers opposed slavery while advocating the expansion of a "liberalized" colonial order.
From the time of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701 14), when France had been invaded and nearly beaten, French statesmen pursued a double goal the preservation of the balance of power in Europe and, in the world at large, the expansion of the French colonial empire and the containment of England.
His was a time when the expansion of England's colonial and slave-trading empire heralded the great divergence between the rich and poor peoples of the world which was to configure the world's societies and economies throughout the succeeding centuries.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury, (born Feb. 3, 1830, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Eng. died Aug. 22, 1903, Hatfield), Conservative political leader who was three-time prime minister (1885 86, 1886 92, 1895 1902) and four-time foreign secretary (1878, 1885 86, 1886 92, 1895 1900), who presided over a wide expansion of Great Britain's colonial empire.
Hanotaux was a French nationalist committed to policies of colonial expansion.
