A Century of Empire, 1801-1900, Volume 1 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

On Sale: May 24, 2011
Page Count: 390 pages
Publisher: BookAnnex
ISBN-13: 9781411455597

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“In the whole British chronicle, then, no span of one hundred years seems more clearly marked out as a definite political and social era than the Nineteenth Century . . . ” So writes the author in this sweeping story of 100 years in Great Britain’s history, a portrait of the events, people, politics, and wars during a momentous century.

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Barnes & Noble Digital Library

Herbert Maxwell (1845–1937) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, horticulturist, and politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1906. Maxwell wrote a number of novels, including The Letter of the Law (1890) and A Duke of Britain (1895), as well as several biographies and nonfiction works, including Scottish Land Names (1894) and The Making of Scotland (1911).