Saints in Politics : : The 'Clapham Sect' and the Growth of Freedom / / Enrest Howse.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1952 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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