Their investment in human labour continued and grew and in 1488, the profit margins generated were so large that they almost solely funded the Christian nation's war against Islam in North Africa. ... France was a predominant figure in the trading and exploitation of African slaves, in the ten years spanning 1720-30 French ships took over 85,0008 enslaved Africans to the plantations in the Americas. ... The centrality of the transatlantic slave trade to the economic growth in France was notably highlighted by C.L.R. James in his book "The Black Jacobins" when he stated "in ...

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In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chronology and facts with some exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful, he wrote a grave work, conveying the lessons he drew from his story. ... In France, modern academic history began with Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. ... Macaulay in England, and Jules Michelet in France. ...

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This lack of interest in Africa did not include The Cape Colony though, which the British gained at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and which served a key role in outfitting ships on the British trade route to India. The role and importance of Africa to the British soon changed though do to imperial competition with France and Germany. ... David Livingston had caught the public attention with his accounts of his explorations and his reminder that a slave trade on the east coast was still taking a great many slaves across the Indian Ocean to the Arab world. ... The scramble for Africa primari...

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Despite, difficulties, problems finding in this area immigration continued widely in Britain because of it appeal as a place of security and opportunity after the World War II,and by that time Britain became a country of immigration following the large scale of immigration from its former and current colonies. And at the end of this second world war in 1945, Britain was quickly recognized that the reconstruction of British economy required a large influx of immigrants labour.The Royal commission on population reported in 1949 that immigrants of good stock would be welcomed without reserve, and...

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