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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... century before its full effects were felt - the Protestant maritime nations with Atlantic seaboards followed where the Catholic ones had led . During the reign of Elizabeth the seamen of London and the West Country challenged the ...
... century before its full effects were felt - the Protestant maritime nations with Atlantic seaboards followed where the Catholic ones had led . During the reign of Elizabeth the seamen of London and the West Country challenged the ...
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... century England had been saved from a recurrence of the seventeenth century struggles between Crown and parliament by vesting power in a Cabinet of Ministers who commanded the support of a majority in the House of Commons . Because of ...
... century England had been saved from a recurrence of the seventeenth century struggles between Crown and parliament by vesting power in a Cabinet of Ministers who commanded the support of a majority in the House of Commons . Because of ...
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... Century . 1910 . Smith . The Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith ( ed . G. C. Moore - Smith ) . 1901 . Sorbière . S. de Sorbière , Relation d'un Voyage en Angleterre 1664 ( transl . 1709 ) . Stanhope . Earl Stanhope , Notes of ...
... Century . 1910 . Smith . The Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith ( ed . G. C. Moore - Smith ) . 1901 . Sorbière . S. de Sorbière , Relation d'un Voyage en Angleterre 1664 ( transl . 1709 ) . Stanhope . Earl Stanhope , Notes of ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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