Author: Glenapp Parish Church
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
James Lyle Mackay
Author: Hector Bolitho
Publisher: London : J. Murray [1936]
ISBN:
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher: London : J. Murray [1936]
ISBN:
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, born 11th Sept., 1852, died 23rd May, 1932
Journals of the House of Lords
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Appendices accompany vols. 64, 67-71.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Appendices accompany vols. 64, 67-71.
Celtic Monthly
Herapath's Railway Magazine, Commercial Journal, and Scientific Review
Railway Times
The Spectator
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
The Titled Nobility of Europe
The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, British
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, British
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
On Royalty
Author: Jeremy Paxman
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 0786721561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The notable characteristic of the royal families of Europe is that they have so very little of anything remotely resembling true power. Increasingly, they tend towards the condition of pipsqueak principalities like Liechtenstein and Monaco -- fancy-dress fodder for magazines that survive by telling us things we did not need to know about people we have hardly heard of. How then have kings and queens come to exercise the mesmeric hold they have upon our imaginations? In On Royalty renowned BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman examines the role of the British monarchy in an age when divine right no longer prevails and governing powers fall to the country's elected leaders. With intelligence and humor, he scrutinizes every aspect of the monarchy and how it has related to politics, religion, the military and the law. He takes us inside Buckingham Palace and illuminates the lives of the monarchs, at once mundane, absurd and magical. What Desmond Morris did for apes, Paxman has done for these primus inter primates: the royal families. Gilded history, weird anthropology and surreal reportage of the royals up close combine in On Royalty, a brilliant investigation into how an ancient institution struggles for meaning in a modern country.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 0786721561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The notable characteristic of the royal families of Europe is that they have so very little of anything remotely resembling true power. Increasingly, they tend towards the condition of pipsqueak principalities like Liechtenstein and Monaco -- fancy-dress fodder for magazines that survive by telling us things we did not need to know about people we have hardly heard of. How then have kings and queens come to exercise the mesmeric hold they have upon our imaginations? In On Royalty renowned BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman examines the role of the British monarchy in an age when divine right no longer prevails and governing powers fall to the country's elected leaders. With intelligence and humor, he scrutinizes every aspect of the monarchy and how it has related to politics, religion, the military and the law. He takes us inside Buckingham Palace and illuminates the lives of the monarchs, at once mundane, absurd and magical. What Desmond Morris did for apes, Paxman has done for these primus inter primates: the royal families. Gilded history, weird anthropology and surreal reportage of the royals up close combine in On Royalty, a brilliant investigation into how an ancient institution struggles for meaning in a modern country.