The VictoriansHutchinson, 2002 - Всего страниц: 724 People, not abstract ideas, make history and in this volume A.N. Wilson has pieced together hundreds of different lives to tell a story - one that is still unfinished in our own day. Here are the poor and obscure as well as the lofty and famous - each in the very act of creating the Victorian age. |
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... Famine . To the scale of the Irish disaster itself must be added the political aftermath of distrust and hatred ... Famine could have been averted . The modern reader is aghast at the unfolding narratives of suffering which any account ...
... Famine . To the scale of the Irish disaster itself must be added the political aftermath of distrust and hatred ... Famine could have been averted . The modern reader is aghast at the unfolding narratives of suffering which any account ...
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... famine was at its height , was avoidable , causes anguish to read about today , and caused worse than anguish to the starving who watched Irish corn being exported from Cork and elsewhere . But given the social hierarchies which existed ...
... famine was at its height , was avoidable , causes anguish to read about today , and caused worse than anguish to the starving who watched Irish corn being exported from Cork and elsewhere . But given the social hierarchies which existed ...
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... famine had now been afflicting Ireland for two years , killing hundreds of thousands of people and forcing others to emigrate . The reaction of the chancellor of the Exchequer , Sir Charles Wood , was expressed in a letter to the Irish ...
... famine had now been afflicting Ireland for two years , killing hundreds of thousands of people and forcing others to emigrate . The reaction of the chancellor of the Exchequer , Sir Charles Wood , was expressed in a letter to the Irish ...
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Preface | 1 |
Early Victorian | 7 |
The Little Old Woman Britannia | 9 |
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