Set in a Silver SeaA 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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Bridgewater Canal , which cost £ 200,000 to build , returned an annual profit of £ 100,000 ; the thirty - nine original proprietors of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company received their capital back in interest every other year for ...
Bridgewater Canal , which cost £ 200,000 to build , returned an annual profit of £ 100,000 ; the thirty - nine original proprietors of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company received their capital back in interest every other year for ...
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Industrial capital was only employed in the creation of new capital . The sole end of all activity was profit . Success or failure turned on not spending sixpence more than was necessary . Unfortunately the end was too narrow for the ...
Industrial capital was only employed in the creation of new capital . The sole end of all activity was profit . Success or failure turned on not spending sixpence more than was necessary . Unfortunately the end was too narrow for the ...
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Morris's News from Nowhere published in 1890 is as far removed from Marx's Capital as the Gospel of St. John from the Book of Judges . “ I know , ” said its author of a working - men's procession , “ what these men want : employment ...
Morris's News from Nowhere published in 1890 is as far removed from Marx's Capital as the Gospel of St. John from the Book of Judges . “ I know , ” said its author of a working - men's procession , “ what these men want : employment ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Set in a Silver Sea Anchor A680 Volume 680 of Anchor books Doubleday anchor books English social history |
| Author | Arthur Bryant |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 May 2007 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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