George IV

Door: A. Smith E

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• ISBN: 9780300088021
• Boekreferentie: UK/Ierland
• Uitgever: Yale University Press
• Taal: ------------------
• Categorie: Kennis en wetenschap
• Details: Paperback, Goed
• Extra informatie: 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
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