Author: John BuchanPublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 327
Book Description
The King's Grace, 1910-1935
The Kings's Grace
Author: John BuchanThe King's Grace: 1910-1935. A Narrative of the First Twenty-five Years of the Reign of George V. With Plates, Including Portraits.
Author: John BuchanThe King's Grace 1910-1935
Author: John BuchanPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473375223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book contains a fascinating treatise on the English King, Edward VII. It is not intended as a biography, but is instead an attempt to provide a picture - and some slight interpretation - of his reign. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in Edward VII and English kingship in general, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. The chapters of this book include: "The Pageant of Succession", "An Uneasy Heritage", "The Restless Years", "Descensus Averni", "Contact", "The Fortress", "The Sallies", "Surrender", "Sour-Apple Harvest", "The Changing Empire", and "A House in Order". This book was first published in 1935, and is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
The King's Grace
Author: John BuchanPublisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 9780755117055
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This sympathetic portrait starts with George V's accession. It was a reign that saw many changes including the Union of South Africa, the First World War and the General Strike of 1926. It is not a biography, but an attempt to provide a picture - and some slight interpretation - of George's reign as the role of the monarchy changed.
The King's grace, 1910-35
Author: John BuchanThe King's Grace, 1910-35
Author: John Buchan (LL.D.)For King and Country
Author: Heather JonesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108682960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown's sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment, bereavement, gender norms, as well as at its political and military powers and its relationship with Ireland and the empire. She considers the role that monarchism played in military culture and examines royal visits to the front, as well as the monarchy's role in home front morale and in interwar war commemoration. Her findings suggest that the rise of republicanism in wartime Britain has been overestimated and that war commemoration was central to the monarchy's revered interwar status up to the abdication crisis.
King and Parliament
Author: H. Stanley HylandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107622158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
This 1951 bibliography by H. Stanley Hyland lists books on the history of the monarchy and of Parliament.
Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition
Author: A. G. G. GibsonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191057975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value. This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The essays explore Graves' unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.