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Saints in Politics : The 'Clapham Sect' and the Growth of Freedom /
This book gives a picture of an important religious reform group in action during the period of the French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Industrial Revolution. In this period of injustice and misery the British ruling classes, frightened by the excesses of the French Revolution, determined, at a tim...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Heritage
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Illustrations
- ONE. Seed plot of history
- TWO. Brotherhood of Christian politicians
- THREE. Am I not a man...
- FOUR. The English have no priests or chaplains
- FIVE. People must be fit for freedom
- SIX. An industry in doing good
- SEVEN. The object is the extinction of slavery
- EIGHT. The world has taken the credit to itself
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index