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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... French aggression by the conquest of Canada , lived two million British settlers . These a patronising Court and parliament treated as if they lacked the stubborn independence of their kinsfolk at home . The result was a quarrel ...
... French aggression by the conquest of Canada , lived two million British settlers . These a patronising Court and parliament treated as if they lacked the stubborn independence of their kinsfolk at home . The result was a quarrel ...
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... French strength in ironclads , culminated in the launch of the 9,000 - ton iron frigate , Warrior , the fastest and most powerful ship in the world . It was the first of a new fleet of iron- hulled , armoured , screw - driven ships ...
... French strength in ironclads , culminated in the launch of the 9,000 - ton iron frigate , Warrior , the fastest and most powerful ship in the world . It was the first of a new fleet of iron- hulled , armoured , screw - driven ships ...
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... French Ambassador at the Court of Charles II . 1892 . Keats . The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats ( ed . Harry Bux- ton Forman ) . 1883 . King . Gregory King , Natural and Political Observations upon the State and ...
... French Ambassador at the Court of Charles II . 1892 . Keats . The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats ( ed . Harry Bux- ton Forman ) . 1883 . King . Gregory King , Natural and Political Observations upon the State and ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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