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A history of our own times : from the accession of Queen Victoria to the general election of 1880 / Justin McCarthy.
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Australian edition.
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Melbourne :: George Robertson,
Year:
1881-
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2 volumes ; 20 cm.
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Includes index.
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Monograph
Abstract:
Vol. 1. -- 1. The King is dead! Long live the Queen! -- 2. Statesmen and parties -- 3. Canada and Lord Durham -- 4. Science and speed -- 5. Chartism -- 6. Question de Jupons -- 7. The Queen's marriage -- 8. The Opium War -- 9. Decline and fall of the
Whig ministry -- 10. Movements in the churches -- 11. The disasters of Cabul -- 12. The repeal year -- 13. Peel's administration -- 14. Free trade and the League -- 15. Famine forces Peel's hand -- 16. Mr. Disraeli -- 17. Famine, commercial trouble, and foreign intrigue -- 18. Chartism and Young Ireland -- 19. Don Pacifico -- 20. The Ecclesiastical Ttles Bill -- 21. The exhibition in Hyde Park -- 22. Palmerston -- 23. Birth of the Empire : death of the "Duke" -- 24. Mr. Gladstone -- 25. The Eastern question -- 26. Where was Lord Palmerston? -- 27. The invasion of the Crimea -- 28. The close of the war -- 29. The literature of the reign : first survey -- 30. The Lorcha "arrow" -- 31. Transportation -- 32. The Sepoy -- 33. The hundredth anniversary of Plassey -- v. 2. -- 34. Cawnpore -- 35. Reconquest -- 36. The end of "John Company" -- 37. The Orsini boms explode in Paris and London -- -- 38. "On the true faith of a Christian" -- 39. The Ionian Islands -- 40. The Tory Diogenes rolling his tub -- 41. The French treaty and the paper duties -- 42. Troubles in the East -- 43. The Civil War in America -- 44. The cruise of the "Alabama' -- 45. Palmerston's last victory -- 46. Ebb and flow -- 47. The death of Lord Palmerston -- 48. The new government -- 49. The troubles in Jamaica -- 50. Driven back across the Rubicon -- 51. The reform agitation -- 52. The leap in the dark -- 53. The Fenian movement -- 54. Trades-unions -- 55. The example of the new dominion -- 56. "Begin with Soldan, ends with Prester John" -- 57. The Irish Church -- 58. "Irish ideas" -- 59. "Reformatin in a flood" -- 60. The Black Sea clause : the "Alabama" arbitration -- 61. The tide on the turn -- 62. The fall of the great administration -- 63. "Conservative reaction" installed in office -- 64. The Eastern question again -- 65. The Congress of Berlin -- 66. The anti-climax of imperialism -- 67. Thr literature of the reign.
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