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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... throne , but gave the controlling direction of the kingdom to the greater owners of land . Wiser than the Stuarts they had overthrown , they exercised power by shunning its outward forms . They governed in the king's name and legislated ...
... throne , but gave the controlling direction of the kingdom to the greater owners of land . Wiser than the Stuarts they had overthrown , they exercised power by shunning its outward forms . They governed in the king's name and legislated ...
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... throne and , during the last four decades , by the vagaries and indecorums of the royal family . These had reached their climax in 1821 in the spectacle of a stout vulgar and hysterical German queen vainly attempting amid the plaudits ...
... throne and , during the last four decades , by the vagaries and indecorums of the royal family . These had reached their climax in 1821 in the spectacle of a stout vulgar and hysterical German queen vainly attempting amid the plaudits ...
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... throne , who , in the course of her reign accumulated a vast museum of objects , each acquiring with usage attributes of an almost sacred kind and possessing its own hallowed and unalterable place in one or other of her palaces , to the ...
... throne , who , in the course of her reign accumulated a vast museum of objects , each acquiring with usage attributes of an almost sacred kind and possessing its own hallowed and unalterable place in one or other of her palaces , to the ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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