George IV /E.A. Smith.
Smith, E. A.
George IV /E.A. Smith. George the 4th George the Fourth - New Haven [Conn. : Yale University Press, (c)1999. - 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : illustrations. - Yale English monarchs .
Includes bibliographies and index.
A Prince and his Education -- The Pursuit of Pleasure -- A Palace for a Prince -- Maria Fitzherbert -- Hopes Disappointed -- Clouds of War -- Caroline -- A Political Prince -- The Royal Malady Again -- Changing Allegiances -- Brothers and Sisters -- Prince Regent -- A Glorious Victory -- Rebellious Daughter -- Seditious Subjects and Turbulent Wife -- Crowned without a Queen -- King of Three Dominions -- The King's Servants -- 'The Invisible' -- Constitutional Monarch -- The Royal Builder -- Patron and Collector -- The King in Seclusion -- George IV's Children.
"This biography of George IV, king between 1820 and 1830, provides a full and objective reassessment of the monarch's character, reputation and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavourable verdicts of the king's contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving dilettante and a feeble and ineffective ruler 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 minimise the king's faults but focuses on the positive qualities of his achievement in politics and in the patronage of the arts."--Jacket.
9780300184235
George, IV, King of Great Britain.
Regency--Great Britain.
Electronic Books.
DA538 / .G467 1999
George IV /E.A. Smith. George the 4th George the Fourth - New Haven [Conn. : Yale University Press, (c)1999. - 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : illustrations. - Yale English monarchs .
Includes bibliographies and index.
A Prince and his Education -- The Pursuit of Pleasure -- A Palace for a Prince -- Maria Fitzherbert -- Hopes Disappointed -- Clouds of War -- Caroline -- A Political Prince -- The Royal Malady Again -- Changing Allegiances -- Brothers and Sisters -- Prince Regent -- A Glorious Victory -- Rebellious Daughter -- Seditious Subjects and Turbulent Wife -- Crowned without a Queen -- King of Three Dominions -- The King's Servants -- 'The Invisible' -- Constitutional Monarch -- The Royal Builder -- Patron and Collector -- The King in Seclusion -- George IV's Children.
"This biography of George IV, king between 1820 and 1830, provides a full and objective reassessment of the monarch's character, reputation and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavourable verdicts of the king's contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving dilettante and a feeble and ineffective ruler 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 minimise the king's faults but focuses on the positive qualities of his achievement in politics and in the patronage of the arts."--Jacket.
9780300184235
George, IV, King of Great Britain.
Regency--Great Britain.
Electronic Books.
DA538 / .G467 1999