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George Iv
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Author : E.A. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1999-06-10
George Iv written by E.A. Smith and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Letters Of King George Iv 1812 1830
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Author : George IV (King of Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1938
The Letters Of King George Iv 1812 1830 written by George IV (King of Great Britain) and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Great Britain categories.
The Letters Of King George Iv
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Author : Arthur Aspinall
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1938
The Letters Of King George Iv written by Arthur Aspinall and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with categories.
George Iv Memoirs Of His Life And Reign
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Author : Hannibal Evans Lloyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1830
George Iv Memoirs Of His Life And Reign written by Hannibal Evans Lloyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1830 with categories.
George Iv
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Author : Hannibal Evans Lloyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1830
George Iv written by Hannibal Evans Lloyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1830 with categories.
A Brief Account Of The Coronation Of George Iv
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Author : George IV (King of Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1821
A Brief Account Of The Coronation Of George Iv written by George IV (King of Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1821 with categories.
George Iv Inspiration Of The Regency
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Author : Steven Parissien
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2002-04-15
George Iv Inspiration Of The Regency written by Steven Parissien and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A father of modern celebrity, King George IVof England is contextualized against the cultural backdrop of his age: The Regency. Already a byword for taste and extravagance when he became Prince Regent in 1811, George IV remains as vivid and notorious a figure today as he was in his own time. He provided the monarchs who followed him with a lesson in how and how not to conduct oneself. In many ways a strikingly modern sovereign, he attempted to manipulate his public image to divert attention from the less savory aspects of his private life. His ultimate mistake was to actually believe in the image he had manufactured rather than in the depressing reality. Steven Parissien brings us George IV against the cultural backdrop of his age, showing how his legacy still affects our contemporary view of the monarchy.
George Iv Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Stella Tillyard
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-07-04
George Iv Penguin Monarchs written by Stella Tillyard and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-04 with History categories.
George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era, and he was, with Charles I, the most artistically literate of all our kings. Yet despite his life of luxury and indulgence, George died alone and unmourned. Stella Tillyard has not written a judgemental book, but a very human and enjoyable one, about this most colourful of all British kings.
Prince Of Pleasure
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Author : Saul David
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 1998
Prince Of Pleasure written by Saul David and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this title, a chronicle of the scandalous reign of England's George IV captures the sexual intrigue and financial improvidence that that helped define the Regency period and also notes this complex King's intelligence and advocacy of the arts.
The Letters Of King George Iv 1812 1830
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Author : George IV (King of Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
The Letters Of King George Iv 1812 1830 written by George IV (King of Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Great Britain categories.