Saints in Politics; The "Clapham Sect" and the Growth of Freedom.

Howse, Ernest Marshall

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, Toronto

Beschreibung

1952. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 215pp. Signed by author. Frontispiece, notes, bibliography, index. There is a closed tear to the top of the front panel near the spine, the back panel is toned and rubbed with a small scraped spot, and there is a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. "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 time when economic life was changing at a rate unequalled for centuries, that existing laws and institutions should not change". Book about Clapham Sect, Religious Reform & William Wilberforce. (Religion, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Religion). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 103290

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Saints in Politics; The "Clapham Sect" and ...

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, Toronto

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers