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 84
... farmers and peasants , who abroad would have been regarded as no better than beasts of burden , conversed on the principles of their calling.1 This common passion was one of the influences that tempered the aristocratic government of ...
... farmers and peasants , who abroad would have been regarded as no better than beasts of burden , conversed on the principles of their calling.1 This common passion was one of the influences that tempered the aristocratic government of ...
Page 123
... farmers applying the knowledge gleaned from the great agricultural ex- periments of the past three generations , was ... farming . A farmer who understands his business becomes rich in England with the same degree of certainty as in ...
... farmers applying the knowledge gleaned from the great agricultural ex- periments of the past three generations , was ... farming . A farmer who understands his business becomes rich in England with the same degree of certainty as in ...
Page 290
... farmer . During the Crimean War wheat prices rose , averaging 74/8 in 1855 - a figure not to be equalled till 1917 - and ... farmers built conservatories and planted ornamental trees , and young ladies in flowing skirts and jackets and ...
... farmer . During the Crimean War wheat prices rose , averaging 74/8 in 1855 - a figure not to be equalled till 1917 - and ... farmers built conservatories and planted ornamental trees , and young ladies in flowing skirts and jackets 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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