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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... half ruined by decimations for his loyalty , could not resist the ruling passion and overspent his slender income making new outbuildings . In the barren places of Lancashire William Blundell of Crosby laid out £ 5 an acre for marling ...
... half ruined by decimations for his loyalty , could not resist the ruling passion and overspent his slender income making new outbuildings . In the barren places of Lancashire William Blundell of Crosby laid out £ 5 an acre for marling ...
Page 175
... half a century . The first Sir Robert Peel , a dispossessed yeoman's son who invested in a few of the early spinning jennies , left nearly a million sterling . A Bristol merchant , worth at the beginning of the war under a thousand ...
... half a century . The first Sir Robert Peel , a dispossessed yeoman's son who invested in a few of the early spinning jennies , left nearly a million sterling . A Bristol merchant , worth at the beginning of the war under a thousand ...
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... half of the nineteenth century : even the golden Spanish discoveries in the Americas three cen- turies before paled beside it . Exports of unmanufactured iron soared from under 30,000 tons of 1815 to five times as much in 1830 , ten ...
... half of the nineteenth century : even the golden Spanish discoveries in the Americas three cen- turies before paled beside it . Exports of unmanufactured iron soared from under 30,000 tons of 1815 to five times as much in 1830 , ten ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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