King George Iii And The Politicians
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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At the turbulent heart of eighteenth-century British politics stood a monarch determined to reclaim royal prerogative in the face of a fractious and ambitious political class — and Richard Pares's King George III and the Politicians chronicles this charged relationship with forensic precision and narrative authority. Drawing on a vast command of primary sources, Pares reconstructs the constitutional battleground of George III's reign, mapping the king's fraught dealings with Whig grandees, ministerial factions, and the nascent party structures that would define modern parliamentary government. The book presents the monarch not as the tyrant of American revolutionary legend, but as a complex, conscientious, and often embattled figure wrestling with the limits of monarchical power in an age of political transformation. Delivered originally as the Ford Lectures at Oxford, this work stands as a landmark of British historiography, celebrated for the elegance of its prose and the depth of its scholarship. Pares argues with quiet but devastating clarity that the real story of George III's reign is not one of royal despotism, but of the painful, grinding negotiation between Crown and Parliament that shaped the modern British constitution. For anyone seeking to understand the political mechanics of Georgian England — and the forces that ultimately constrained a king — this remains an indispensable and endlessly rewarding text.
Author: Richard Pares
Format: Paperback
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the turbulent heart of eighteenth-century British politics stood a monarch determined to reclaim royal prerogative in the face of a fractious and ambitious political class — and Richard Pares's King George III and the Politicians chronicles this charged relationship with forensic precision and narrative authority. Drawing on a vast command of primary sources, Pares reconstructs the constitutional battleground of George III's reign, mapping the king's fraught dealings with Whig grandees, ministerial factions, and the nascent party structures that would define modern parliamentary government. The book presents the monarch not as the tyrant of American revolutionary legend, but as a complex, conscientious, and often embattled figure wrestling with the limits of monarchical power in an age of political transformation. Delivered originally as the Ford Lectures at Oxford, this work stands as a landmark of British historiography, celebrated for the elegance of its prose and the depth of its scholarship. Pares argues with quiet but devastating clarity that the real story of George III's reign is not one of royal despotism, but of the painful, grinding negotiation between Crown and Parliament that shaped the modern British constitution. For anyone seeking to understand the political mechanics of Georgian England — and the forces that ultimately constrained a king — this remains an indispensable and endlessly rewarding text.