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“…Speech in Portland, Maine, June 1, 1886, at a Meeting in support of Gladstone's first home rule bill for Ireland / James G. Blaine -- Our national dangers, real and unreal. …”
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“…Stephen Wright (1813-1889) / by Terry Wolever -- Hezekiah Harvey (1821-1893) / by Jeff Straub -- Horatio G. Jones, Jr. (1822-1893) / by Andre Gazal -- Sarah F. …”
New York : Macmillan, 1973 [First American edition.].
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“…Chapter I -- The South sea bubble -- Walpole's ministry 1721-42 -- Wood's coinage 1722 -- The excise bill 1733 -- The Gin Act 1753 -- The war of Jenkins' ear 1739 -- The Austrian succession -- The fall of Walpole 1742 -- George II -- Chapter II -- The Jacobite rebellion 1745 -- Pelham ministry -- The Peace of Aix-la-Chapele 1748 -- Gin act 1751 -- Jews act 1753 -- The Newcastle ministry 1754 -- Seven years war 1756-63 -- Admiral Byng -- Newcastle-Pitt coalition 1757 -- Lord Bute -- Chapter III -- The war of American independence -- The Gordon riots 1780 -- The Whig coalition 1782 -- Grattan's home rule 1782 -- Shelburne-Pitt ministry 1782 -- Peace of Versailles 1783 -- Fox's India bill 1783 -- Pitt v Fox -- The Prince of Wales and Mrs Fitzherbert -- Impeachment of Warren Hastings 1787 -- The Regency crisis 1788 -- French revolution 1789 -- Tom Paine and the rights of man -- Chapter IV -- Split of the Whigs -- French victories -- Defeat of the Slave bill 1796 -- Battle of the Nile 1798 -- Irish revolt 1798 -- Act of union 1801 -- Fall of Pitt 1801 -- Peace of Amiens 1802 -- Napoleon as emperor -- Ministry of all the talents -- Death of Pitt and Fox 1806 -- No popery election 1807 -- Treaty of Tilsit 1807 -- The Peninsular war -- Retreat from Moscow 1812 -- The regency 1812 -- War with America 1812 -- Fall of Napoleon 1814 -- Congress of Vienna 1814 -- Battle of Waterloo 1815 -- The Corn law 1815 -- Chapter V -- Spa fields riot 1816 -- Seditious meetings bill 1817 -- Peterloo massacre 1819 -- The six acts 1819 -- The Caroline scandal 1820 -- George IV -- Catholic emancipation 1828-29 -- Wellington's ministry 1828-30 -- Williami IV -- Industrial revolution -- First reform bill 1832 -- Whig reforms -- Tolpuddle martyrs 1834 -- Melbourne and Peel -- Accession of Queen Victoria 1837 -- Anti-Corn law league -- Free trade v protection -- O'Connell and repeal of the union -- Repeal of the Corn laws 1846 -- Fall of Peel 1846 -- Famine in Ireland 1845-46 -- Year of revolutions 1848 -- Chapter VI -- The Catholic church 1850 -- Napoleon and Palmerston -- Crimea War 1854-56 -- Balaclava 1854 -- Derby ministries -- Indian mutiny 1857 -- The triumvirate 1859 -- American Civil war 1861 -- The Trent affair 1861 -- Fenian outrages -- Second reform bill 1867 -- Gladstone and Disraeli -- Education act 1870 and other reforms -- Liberal disunity -- Suez Canal share 1875 -- Victoria empress of India 1877 -- The Midlothian campaign 1879 -- Phoenix park murders 1882 -- Third reform bill 1884 -- Gordon in the Sudan -- Home rule election 1886 -- The diamond jubilee 1887 -- Chapter VII -- Irish home rule -- Parnell and The Times 1888 -- Rhodes in South Africa 1890 -- Gladstone's last ministry -- Defeat of the Home Rule Bill 1893 -- Lord Salisbury and Joseph Chamberlain -- The Jameson Raid 1895 -- Fashoda 1897 -- Boer war 1899 -- Anglo-Japanese alliance 1902 -- Imperial preference -- The liberal landslide 1906 -- Growth of the labour party -- Lloyd George's budget 1909 -- European rearmament -- Suffragette riots 1911 -- Triple alliance of unions 1913 -- The first World War 1914-18 -- Chapter VIII -- Treaty of Versailles 1919 -- The Irish problem -- League of nation 1920 -- Occupation of the Ruhr 1921 -- The Zinoviev letter 1924 -- German inflation -- General strike 1926 -- Complete women's suffrage 1929 -- Wall street crash 1929 -- Economic crises -- Jarrow crusade 1936 -- Spanish civil war 1936 -- Munich and appeasement 1938 -- The Second World War 1939-45 -- Yalta and Potsdam 1945 -- Defeat of Churchill 1945 -- Rationing -- Korean war 1950 -- Festival of Britain 1951 -- Fall of the labour government 1951 -- Accession of Queen Elizabeth 1952 -- The H bomb -- Apartheid -- The Suez crisis 1956 -- Invasion of Hungary 1956 -- Harold Macmillan.…”
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“…Constitution -- 1789 The Judiciary Act of 1789 -- 1789 The Declaration of the Rights of Man -- 1790 America's first copyright law -- 1791 The Bill of Rights -- 1792 The Coinage Act of 1792 -- 1798 The Triple Assessment (Income tax) -- 1803 The power of judicial review -- 1804 The Napoleonic Code -- 1805 The superiority of possession -- 1819 The supremacy of federal law -- 1821 The supremacy of federal courts -- 1824 Congressional regulation of commerce -- 1824 Administering native peoples -- 1839 The Amistad -- 1842 Recognition of labor unions -- 1843 The M'Naghten Rule --1848 The Field Code -- 1854 The measure of contract damages -- 1857 The Dred Scott decision -- 1861 The government printing office -- 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation -- 1864 The Geneva Convention -- 1865 The abolition of slavery -- 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 -- 1868 Impeaching President Andrew Johnson -- 1868 The fourteenth amendment -- 1869 Prohibition of racial voter discrimination -- 1870 The law school revolution -- 1872 Law reporting and legal publishing -- 1873 Obscenity and the Comstock Act -- 1873 Admission of women to the bar -- 1876 Legal aide societies -- 1878 The Berne Convention -- 1881 The insanity defense -- 1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act -- 1883 The civil rights cases -- 1886 Equal protection rights -- 1887 The Interstate Commerce Act -- 1888 The Brazilian Slave Emancipation Act -- 1890 The right to privacy -- 1890 The Sherman Antitrust Act -- 1893 New Zealand women's suffrage -- 1896 Plessy v. …”
New York, N.Y. : The Library of America : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, 1992
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“…v. 2 1891-1910 -- 1891: Aix-les-Bains ; Playing Courier ; Mental Telegraphy -- 1892: The Cradle of Liberty -- 1893: The £1,000,000 Bank-Note ; About All Kinds of Ships ; Extracts from Adam's Diary ; Is He Living or Is He Dead? …”