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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It was , indeed , this independencel that caused their better - to - do neighbours to disregard them in their attempt to enlarge their own freedom by opening new avenues to wealth . The tragedy of the enclosures was not that they ...
It was , indeed , this independencel that caused their better - to - do neighbours to disregard them in their attempt to enlarge their own freedom by opening new avenues to wealth . The tragedy of the enclosures was not that they ...
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countrymen — and particularly their neighbours — thought of them . The very illogicality of the electoral system inclined them to bow to any unmistakable expression of public opinion ; they felt the intellectual weakness of their ...
countrymen — and particularly their neighbours — thought of them . The very illogicality of the electoral system inclined them to bow to any unmistakable expression of public opinion ; they felt the intellectual weakness of their ...
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Like their neighbours , the cottage labourers , they also kept pigs fed on household waste and surplus milk products . With the agricultural changes which were uprooting them , the yeomen were yielding to the large tenant - farmers who ...
Like their neighbours , the cottage labourers , they also kept pigs fed on household waste and surplus milk products . With the agricultural changes which were uprooting them , the yeomen were yielding to the large tenant - farmers who ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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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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