TY - BOOK AU - Smith,E.A. TI - George IV /E.A. Smith T2 - Yale English monarchs SN - 9780300184235 AV - DA538 .G467 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - New Haven [Conn. PB - Yale University Press KW - George, KW - Regency KW - Great Britain KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=978009&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -