A Victorian Empire by Andrew Wareham (.ePUB)
File Size: 294 KB
A Victorian Empire by Andrew Wareham (A Poor Man at the Gate #14)
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 294kb
Overview: The tumultuous decade of the 1840s is entering its first years with a greater potential for revolution than any period since the days of Charles I.
The Chartists are coming to the fore with their demands of universal suffrage and an end to the iniquitous Corn Laws. The government, as always, is split between policies of coercion and compromise. The Landed Interest needs to preserve the Corn Laws, and its own income; the Industrialists, increasing in power, want cheap bread for their workers. The Church is trying to regain some of its old influence while the Chapels actually have made inroads into the country as a whole. The first signs of increased literacy are showing in the lower classes, mainly in the form of political interest and revolutionary thought.
Adding to the political and social unrest, the towns have become festering hotbeds of disease. Typhoid, cholera, and lesser, undefined fevers are becoming endemic.
The country is closer to disaster than at any time in the previous two centuries.
In this background, the Andrews family is busily trying to establish itself as a wealthy, powerful entity, a leading force in the new Victorian Empire…
Genre: – Historical Fiction
Free Download links: