Set in a Silver SeaDoubleday, 1968 - 359 pages A social history of England from the days of the first Stuart king, James, when England was largely an agricultural and rural country, through the reign of Queen Victoria, when England had become the world's foremost industrial and Imperial giant. |
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... British settlers . These a patronising Court and parliament treated as if they lacked the stubborn independence of their kinsfolk at home . The result was a quarrel , persisted in with all the ferocious obstinacy and moral rectitude of ...
... British settlers . These a patronising Court and parliament treated as if they lacked the stubborn independence of their kinsfolk at home . The result was a quarrel , persisted in with all the ferocious obstinacy and moral rectitude of ...
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... British inventors did the rest . In 1771 Richard Arkwright , a Bolton barber , improv- ing on the earlier work of the handloom weaver , Hargreaves of Blackburn , set up the first water - propelled spinning frame in Derbyshire . Eight ...
... British inventors did the rest . In 1771 Richard Arkwright , a Bolton barber , improv- ing on the earlier work of the handloom weaver , Hargreaves of Blackburn , set up the first water - propelled spinning frame in Derbyshire . Eight ...
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... British traders met their customers ' demands , earned prodigious dividends . So did the ownership of land in the new industrial areas . The rent - roll of the Shakerleys , a typical Lancashire and Cheshire landed family , rose during ...
... British traders met their customers ' demands , earned prodigious dividends . So did the ownership of land in the new industrial areas . The rent - roll of the Shakerleys , a typical Lancashire and Cheshire landed family , rose during ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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