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Author | : Jeremy Black |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2007-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781852855819 |
A detailed critique of the eighteenth-century German family and their reign on the British throne includes coverage of such topics as the language barrier that impacted George I's controversial rule, George III's loss of the American colonies and bouts with mental instability, and George IV's scandalous marriage and attempted divorce.
Author | : V. H. H. Green |
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Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Janice Hadlow |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780007165209 |
An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was determined to break with the extraordinarily dysfunctional home lives of his Hanoverian predecessors. He was sure that as a faithful husband and a loving father, he would be not just a happier man but a better ruler as well. During the early part of his reign it seemed as if, against all the odds, his great family project was succeeding. His wife, Queen Charlotte, shared his sense of moral purpose, and together they raised their fifteen children in a climate of loving attention. But as the children grew older, and their wishes and desires developed away from those of their father, it became harder to maintain the illusion of domestic harmony. 'The Strangest Family' is an epic, sprawling family drama, filled with intensely realised characters who leap off the page as we are led deep inside the private lives of the Hanoverians. Written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new voice in history writing, it is both a window on another world and a universal story that will resonate powerfully with modern readers.
Author | : Prof Dr Andreas Gestrich |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472437659 |
Three hundred years after the succession of the first Hanoverian king, this volume provides an intriguing perspective of a dynasty, challenging assumptions of the Hanoverians as petty-minded monarchs presiding over an inconsequential court. Looking afresh at the Georgian monarchs and their role, influence and legacy within Britain, Hanover and beyond, the chapters shine new light on important topics: from rivalling concepts of monarchical legitimacy and court culture to the multi-confessional set-up of the British composite monarchy and the role of the military, the Anglican Church and the aristocracy in defining and challenging the political order.
Author | : Sir Charles Grant Robertson |
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Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Charles Oman |
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Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Brent S. Sirota |
Publisher | : Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2019-10-11 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781783274499 |
Was the accession of the Hanoverian dynasty of Brunswick to the throne of Britain and its empire in 1714 merely the final act in the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-89? Many contemporaries and later historians thought so, explaining the succession in the same terms as the earlier revolution - deliverance from the national perils of 'popery and arbitrary government'. By contrast, this book argues that the picture is much more complicated than straightforward continuity between 1688-89 and 1714. Emphasizing the plurality of post-Revolutionary developments, it explores early eighteenth-century Britain in light of the social, political, economic, religious and cultural transformations inaugurated by the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-1689 and its ensuing settlements in church, state and empire. The revolution of 1688-89 was much more transformative and convulsive than is often assumed; and the book shows that, although the Hanoverian Succession did embody a clear-cut reaffirmation of the core elements of the Revolution settlement - anti-Jacobitism and anti-popery - its impact on various post-Revolutionary developments in Church, state, Union, intellectual culture, international relations, political economy and empire is decidedly less clear. BRENT S. SIROTA is Associate Professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. ALLAN I. MACINNES is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde. CONTRIBUTORS: James Caudle, Megan Lindsay Cherry, Christopher Dudley, Robert I. Frost, Allan I. Macinnes, Esther Mijers, Steve Pincus, Brent S. Sirota, Abigail L. Swingen, Daniel Szechi, Amy Watson
Author | : Brendan Simms |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2007-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139461877 |
For more than 120 years (1714–1837) Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This made Britain a continental European state in many respects, and diluted her sense of insular apartness. The geopolitical focus of Britain was now as much on Germany, on the Elbe and the Weser as it was on the Channel or overseas. At the same time, the Hanoverian connection was a major and highly controversial factor in British high politics and popular political debate. This volume was the first systematically to explore the subject by a team of experts drawn from the UK, US and Germany. They integrate the burgeoning specialist literature on aspects of the Personal Union into the broader history of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Never before had the impact of the Hanoverian connection on British politics, monarchy and the public sphere, been so thoroughly investigated.
Author | : Jasper Heinzen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2017-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107198798 |
An investigation into why the creation of nation-states coincided with bouts of civil war in the nineteenth-century Western world.