George IV /E.A. Smith.

By:

Smith, E. A [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780300184235

Other title:

George the 4th
George the Fourth

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

DA538 .G467 1999

Online resources:

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Contents:

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.

Review: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	DA538.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn907290046

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"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.

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.

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