Author: William WallacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life and Reign of George IV.
Author: William WallaceGeorge IV
Author: E.A. SmithPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300184239
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, gives a full and objective reassessment of the monarch’s character, reputation, and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavorable verdicts of the king’s contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving dilettante and a feeble and ineffective ruler who was responsible for the decline of the power and reputation of the monarchy in the early nineteenth century. Now E.A. Smith offers a new view of George IV, one that does not minimize the king’s faults but focuses on the positive qualities of his achievement in politics and in the patronage of the arts. Smith explores the roots of the king’s character and personality, stressing the importance of his relationship with his parents and twelve surviving siblings. He examines the king’s important contributions to the cultural enhancement of his capital and his encouragement of the major artistic, literary, and scholarly figures of his time. He reassesses the king’s role as constitutional monarch, contending that it was he, rather than Victoria and Albert, who created the constitutional monarchy of nineteenth-century Britain and began the revival of its popularity. Smith’s biography not only illuminates the character of one of the most colorful of Britain’s rulers but also contributes to the history of the British monarchy and its role in the nation’s life.
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Books
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Catalogue of the Contents of Section A-p
Author: Leeds Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Prince of Pleasure
Author: Saul DavidPublisher:
ISBN: 9780349110875
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy and good feeling that I ever saw in one character in my life', George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, later George IV, was a highly controversial figure. He courted both Whigs and Tories in his attempts to establish the Regency during the 'madness' of his father, George III. Scandalous liaisons with prostitutes and duchesses, and his 'secret' marriage to the Catholic Mrs Fitzherbert, tested his duty - to nation and to family. Yet his support for overseas campaigns against Napoleon, culminating in such historic victories as Trafalgar and Waterloo, consolidated Britain's status as the pre-eminent world power amid the great social and economic upheavals of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on a wealth of original accounts of life in Georgian Britain, Saul David has created a masterly portrait - of a flamboyant, opportunistic and influential figure, and of a nation in a time of great change.
Finding List of Books in the Classes of Biography, History and Travels, Belonging to the Indianapolis Public Library
Author: Indianapolis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Catalogus librorum impressorum Bibliothecae Collegii B. Mariae Magdalenae in Academia Oxoniensi
Author: Magdalen College (University of Oxford). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description