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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Arthur Bryant. In that at first unrealised victory for Europe - for it took nearly a century before its full effects were felt - the Protestant maritime nations with Atlantic seaboards followed where the Catholic ones had led . During ...
Arthur Bryant. In that at first unrealised victory for Europe - for it took nearly a century before its full effects were felt - the Protestant maritime nations with Atlantic seaboards followed where the Catholic ones had led . During ...
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... victory at Plassey in 1757 they had only been casual factors trading from isolated coastal ports in the anarchical Indian peninsula by leave of native princes and in armed rivalry with other European trading companies . But in the ...
... victory at Plassey in 1757 they had only been casual factors trading from isolated coastal ports in the anarchical Indian peninsula by leave of native princes and in armed rivalry with other European trading companies . But in the ...
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... victory , indeed , made us only a little lower than angels . ' How those fine brawn - faced fellows of farmers would drink to our success ! And then what stuff they had to drink ! Punch ! -not your new Ponche à la Romaine , or Ponche à ...
... victory , indeed , made us only a little lower than angels . ' How those fine brawn - faced fellows of farmers would drink to our success ! And then what stuff they had to drink ! Punch ! -not your new Ponche à la Romaine , or Ponche à ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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