Product Description
The book carries the reader through the year 1848 on the Continent, in Britain and America, by offering the important choice and representative items of history that occurred from January 1 to December 31. Mr. Postgate follows the year month by month, from the Ten-Hours' Act in January in England to The Gold Rush in December in California. His reports take up tragedies and frivolities, he carefuly follows the wave of revolutions on the Continent
Hardcover, maps to endpapges , Jonathan Cape UK, 1955, review slip laid in.