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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Page 64
... west - country trade that Bristol , Barnstaple and Blackwell Hall exported to all the world . And farther west was Exeter of the serges , where thousands of artisans and all the country folk for twenty miles round were continuously ...
... west - country trade that Bristol , Barnstaple and Blackwell Hall exported to all the world . And farther west was Exeter of the serges , where thousands of artisans and all the country folk for twenty miles round were continuously ...
Page 91
... West Indies . From this oriental El Dorado flowed an ever - widening stream of spices , indigo , ivory , sugar , tea , ebony , sandalwood , saltpetre , cotton , silks and calicoes and fabulously rich merchants who bought up English ...
... West Indies . From this oriental El Dorado flowed an ever - widening stream of spices , indigo , ivory , sugar , tea , ebony , sandalwood , saltpetre , cotton , silks and calicoes and fabulously rich merchants who bought up English ...
Page 97
... West African coast across the " Middle Passage " to the West Indies in crowded slavers , loaded three slaves to a ton , the poor chained wretches being packed so tightly between decks that they were often forced to lie on top of one ...
... West African coast across the " Middle Passage " to the West Indies in crowded slavers , loaded three slaves to a ton , the poor chained wretches being packed so tightly between decks that they were often forced to lie on top of one ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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