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 80
... neighbours to disregard them in their attempt to enlarge their own freedom by opening new avenues to wealth . The tragedy of the enclosures was not that they changed the older basis of farming and land tenure , which was ill - suited to ...
... neighbours to disregard them in their attempt to enlarge their own freedom by opening new avenues to wealth . The tragedy of the enclosures was not that they changed the older basis of farming and land tenure , which was ill - suited to ...
Page 84
... neighbours , who did not know at which to wonder more : aristocratic absorption in clovers and fat cattle or the intelligence with which farmers and peasants , who abroad would have been regarded as no better than beasts of burden ...
... neighbours , who did not know at which to wonder more : aristocratic absorption in clovers and fat cattle or the intelligence with which farmers and peasants , who abroad would have been regarded as no better than beasts of burden ...
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... neighbours . On such holdings the whole family worked without cessation but enjoyed liberty and a share of the good things they created . They were most numerous in the unenclosed north , where the " statesmen " of Westmorland and ...
... neighbours . On such holdings the whole family worked without cessation but enjoyed liberty and a share of the good things they created . They were most numerous in the unenclosed north , where the " statesmen " of Westmorland and ...
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Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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