The Life And Times Of George I
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Jacket: Very good
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In the turbulent early decades of the eighteenth century, a German prince from the House of Hanover ascended the British throne, setting in motion a seismic shift in the history of the monarchy — The Life and Times of George I by Joyce Marlow chronicles the remarkable and often contradictory reign of a king who never truly mastered the English language yet presided over a nation in the throes of political transformation. From the intrigues of the Jacobite threat to the birth of modern constitutional monarchy, Marlow presents a vivid portrait of a sovereign whose personal life was no less dramatic than the affairs of state, marked by the imprisonment of his wife and bitter estrangement from his own son and heir. With a deft command of narrative history, Marlow illuminates the broader currents of the era — the rise of Robert Walpole and the precedent of Cabinet government, the South Sea Bubble's catastrophic financial fallout, and Britain's evolving role on the European stage. Written with clarity and authority, and introduced by the distinguished historian Antonia Fraser, this biography situates George I not as a peripheral or reluctant monarch, but as an accidental architect of the modern British state. Readers curious about the hidden machinery behind the Georgian age will find this an indispensable and utterly absorbing account.
Author: Joyce Marlow
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the turbulent early decades of the eighteenth century, a German prince from the House of Hanover ascended the British throne, setting in motion a seismic shift in the history of the monarchy — The Life and Times of George I by Joyce Marlow chronicles the remarkable and often contradictory reign of a king who never truly mastered the English language yet presided over a nation in the throes of political transformation. From the intrigues of the Jacobite threat to the birth of modern constitutional monarchy, Marlow presents a vivid portrait of a sovereign whose personal life was no less dramatic than the affairs of state, marked by the imprisonment of his wife and bitter estrangement from his own son and heir. With a deft command of narrative history, Marlow illuminates the broader currents of the era — the rise of Robert Walpole and the precedent of Cabinet government, the South Sea Bubble's catastrophic financial fallout, and Britain's evolving role on the European stage. Written with clarity and authority, and introduced by the distinguished historian Antonia Fraser, this biography situates George I not as a peripheral or reluctant monarch, but as an accidental architect of the modern British state. Readers curious about the hidden machinery behind the Georgian age will find this an indispensable and utterly absorbing account.