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 106
... foreign in religion and mainly so in race . The gulf between them had been widened rather than lessened by the Act of Union of 1801 , which had abolished the Irish Parliament in favour of minority representation in the imperial ...
... foreign in religion and mainly so in race . The gulf between them had been widened rather than lessened by the Act of Union of 1801 , which had abolished the Irish Parliament in favour of minority representation in the imperial ...
Page 133
... foreign observer that , for all their neat appear- ance , they were better dressed than fed , there was about the race an unmistakable air of health and good living ; an Italian lady was amazed by the beauty of the adventuresses in the ...
... foreign observer that , for all their neat appear- ance , they were better dressed than fed , there was about the race an unmistakable air of health and good living ; an Italian lady was amazed by the beauty of the adventuresses in the ...
Page 268
... foreign corn was a form of national insanity . For they restricted the foreign sales of Lancashire cotton . They could only be explained by the power of monopoly possessed by a handful of selfish and reactionary landowners . The case ...
... foreign corn was a form of national insanity . For they restricted the foreign sales of Lancashire cotton . They could only be explained by the power of monopoly possessed by a handful of selfish and reactionary landowners . The case ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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