PLENTY AND WANT
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PLENTY AND WANT (ebook)

PROFFESSOR JOHN BURNETT / JOHN BURNETT

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ROUTLEDGE
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9781136090929
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380
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What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of English food habits since the industrial revolution answers these questions and more.

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