A History of Britain, Volume 3BBC, 2002 - 576 pagina's "The story opens on the eve of a bloody revolution, but not a British one. The French Revolution never quite crossed the Channel, though its spirit of fiery defiance and Romantic idealism did, sparking off a round of radical revolts and reforms that gathered momentum over the coming century - from the Irish Rebellion to the Chartist Petition. The great question of the Victorian century was how the world's first industrial society could come through its growing pains without falling apart in social and political conflict. Would the machine age destroy or strengthen the institutions that held Britain together, from the family to the farm? And if the British Empire helped to make Britain stable and rich, did it live up to its promise to help the ruled as well as the rulers? On the way to answering these questions, The Fate of Empire makes stops at both celebrations, like the Great Exhibition, and catastrophes, like the Irish potato famine and the Indian Mutiny. Amidst the military and economic shocks and traumas of the 20[superscript th] century, and through the voices of Churchill, Orwell and H. G. Wells, it asks the question that is still with us - is the immense weight of our history a blessing or a curse, a gift or a millstone around the neck of our future?"--BOOK JACKET. |
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... especially inn signs where the birds and beasts of Britain - bulls , horses , salmon - were gaudily displayed . To anyone with half an eye , it was obvious that Thomas had a precocious gift and - after he had chalked his way through ...
... especially inn signs where the birds and beasts of Britain - bulls , horses , salmon - were gaudily displayed . To anyone with half an eye , it was obvious that Thomas had a precocious gift and - after he had chalked his way through ...
Pagina 366
... especially the disestablish- ment of the Church of Ireland . But even as a pragmatist ( not a radical ) he was beginning to understand the force of the Birmingham Liberal activist Joseph Chamberlain's arguments that good local ...
... especially the disestablish- ment of the Church of Ireland . But even as a pragmatist ( not a radical ) he was beginning to understand the force of the Birmingham Liberal activist Joseph Chamberlain's arguments that good local ...
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... especially as Hitler was making noises about the plight of some 3 million ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland region of northern Czechoslovakia . When those noises turned into demands for the Sudetenland to be annexed to Germany , on pain ...
... especially as Hitler was making noises about the plight of some 3 million ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland region of northern Czechoslovakia . When those noises turned into demands for the Sudetenland to be annexed to Germany , on pain ...
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