Like Roman citizenship, it could be indefinitely extended, and every extension fortified ...
Like Roman citizenship, it could be indefinitely extended, and every extension fortified the State. IN 1830 one aspect, and not the least formidable, of the new civilization, was suddenly forced on every mind.
For half a generation, the cholera had been wandering at large across Asia and Eastern Europe. It spread, in spite of the most active precautions, into Germany; from Hamburg it crossed to Sunderland; in a few weeks it was in London.
Measures were hastily improvised to meet a visitation which might, for all that science could tell, be as destructive as the Great Plague.
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A Central Board of Health was established in London; local boards in ...
A Central Board of Health was established in London; local boards in the provinces; a day of fasting and humiliation was proclaimed. Of the local boards th
The Labourers' Rising of 1830 served, like the cholera, to ring attention ...
The Labourers' Rising of 1830 served, like the cholera, to ring attention to a problem which without it might have been neglected till
But the urban problem could not be solved by marching the unemployed ...
But the urban problem could not be solved by marching the unemployed in and out of the workhouse as times were bad or good.