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 90
... 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 , persisted in with all the ferocious obstinacy and moral rectitude of ...
... 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 , persisted in with all the ferocious obstinacy and moral rectitude of ...
Page 167
... British man- of - war , for St. Helena , wages in the manufacturing districts were higher than they had ever been . Yorkshire woolcombers were earning five shillings a day , coalminers almost as much . Every- one with ambition was ...
... British man- of - war , for St. Helena , wages in the manufacturing districts were higher than they had ever been . Yorkshire woolcombers were earning five shillings a day , coalminers almost as much . Every- one with ambition was ...
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... British traders met their customers ' demands , earned prodigious dividends . So did the ownership of land in the new industrial areas . The rent - roll of the Shakerleys , a typical Lancashire and Cheshire landed family , rose during ...
... British traders met their customers ' demands , earned prodigious dividends . So did the ownership of land in the new industrial areas . The rent - roll of the Shakerleys , a typical Lancashire and Cheshire landed family , rose during ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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