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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... European traders from the Orient . At the very time that , fresh from their capture of Constantinople and the destruction of the Byzantine empire , Moslem fleets and armies were advancing westwards ... Europe - for 8 SET IN A SILVER SEA.
... European traders from the Orient . At the very time that , fresh from their capture of Constantinople and the destruction of the Byzantine empire , Moslem fleets and armies were advancing westwards ... Europe - for 8 SET IN A SILVER SEA.
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... Europe . The streets between the crowded buildings were narrow , cobbled with egg - shaped stones , with posts at the sides of the broader thoroughfares to protect pedestrians , and made fantastically crooked by the uneven frontage of ...
... Europe . The streets between the crowded buildings were narrow , cobbled with egg - shaped stones , with posts at the sides of the broader thoroughfares to protect pedestrians , and made fantastically crooked by the uneven frontage of ...
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... Europe , " lay the great Soho manufactory of Boulton & Watt . Here over his own works lived the princely capitalist who in the course of thirty virtuous and laborious years turned the creative genius of a Scottish engineer , James Watt ...
... Europe , " lay the great Soho manufactory of Boulton & Watt . Here over his own works lived the princely capitalist who in the course of thirty virtuous and laborious years turned the creative genius of a Scottish engineer , James Watt ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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