Author: John Russell Duke of BedfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Correspondence of John, Fourth Duke of Bedford
Author: John Russell Duke of BedfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Correspondence of John, Fourth Duke of Bedford: Selected from the Originals at Woburn Abbey. With an Introduction
Author: John Duke of BedfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Correspondence of John, Fourth Duke of Bedford Selected from the Originals at Woburn Abbey with an Introduction by Lord John Russel
Author: John BedfordCorrespondence of John, 4th Duke of Bedford
Author: John RussellPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385073952
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Correspondence of John, Fourth Duke of Bedford
Author: John Russell Duke of BedfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Last King of America
Author: Andrew RobertsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984879278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1033
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece. But this deeply unflattering characterization is rooted in the prejudiced and brilliantly persuasive opinions of eighteenth-century revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, who needed to make the king appear evil in order to achieve their own political aims. After combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of never-before-published correspondence, award-winning historian Andrew Roberts has uncovered the truth: George III was in fact a wise, humane, and even enlightened monarch who was beset by talented enemies, debilitating mental illness, incompetent ministers, and disastrous luck. In The Last King of America, Roberts paints a deft and nuanced portrait of the much-maligned monarch and outlines his accomplishments, which have been almost universally forgotten. Two hundred and forty-five years after the end of George III's American rule, it is time for Americans to look back on their last king with greater understanding: to see him as he was and to come to terms with the last time they were ruled by a monarch.
Correspondence of John, Fourth Duke of Bedford
Author: John Russell Duke of BedfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Correspondence of John, Fourth Duke of Bedford
Author: John Russell Duke of BedfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Author: Horace WalpoleGeorge III
Author: Peter ThomasPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 184779565X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The eighteenth-century was long deemed 'the classical age of the constitution' in Britain, with cabinet government based on a two-party system of Whigs and Tories in Parliament, and a monarchy whose powers had been emasculated by the Glorious Revolution o. This study furthers the work of Sir Lewis Namier who argued in 1929 that no such party system existed, George III was not a cypher and that Parliament was an administration comprising of factions and opposition. George III was a high-profile and well-known character in British history whose policies have often been blamed for the loss of Britain's American colonies, around whom rages a perennial dispute over his aims: was he seeking to restore royal power, or merely excercising his constitutional rights?. The first chronological survey of the first ten years of George III’s reign through power politics and policy-making.