Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandRoutledge, 5.7.2017 - 353 sivua The goal of Kings and Desperate Men is to provide a picture of eighteenth-century England up to the French Revolution. Kronenberger's work lies much closer to a social chronicle than an orthodox history, and is more concerned with manners and tastes than with treaties and wars. Kings and Desperate Men reveals what life was like for both aristocrats and commoners: their family lives, experience of larger society, habits, diet, fashions, religion, and artistic tastes. In tracing these topics for both city and country dwellers, he artfully communicates the very real division between the vivacity of London and the regular, fixed, and monotonous character of country life. The division is vital to understanding the age and the transformations it would experience.Yet Kronenberger does not ignore the more traditional historical landmarks. Kroenberger treats the characters of the leading political actors: Walpole, Bolingbroke, Burke, Fox, and Pitt, while providing the reader with a sweeping account of the formation of political parties and constitutional shifts of power between the monarchy and parliament. Students of the period who despair at its political complexities will fi nd much to appreciate in Kronenberger's condensed and easy to understand formulations.As for philosophy, Kronenberger refers to thinkers and ideas as they influence English life; especially Locke and Hume. Their ideas and reputations are explained as part of the character of society. The same is true for economics. More attention is given to the social gains of middle-class shopkeepers and the eighteenth-century zeal for stock speculation than to formal schools of thought. Especially notable is Kronenberger's treatment of both the arts and the artists of the eighteenth century-theatre, opera, music, literature, architecture, and painting. |
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... English politicians of the day more than anything else ; but this sketch contains within it the issues that Britain was to confront throughout its imperial experience : What was to be the trade policy with the colonies ? What degree of ...
... English politicians of the day more than anything else ; but this sketch contains within it the issues that Britain was to confront throughout its imperial experience : What was to be the trade policy with the colonies ? What degree of ...
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... English life . He mentions Locke and Hume , for example , not to trace the particulars of their philosophic positions , but rather to connect their ideas and reputations with the character of society . But the limits of the power of ...
... English life . He mentions Locke and Hume , for example , not to trace the particulars of their philosophic positions , but rather to connect their ideas and reputations with the character of society . But the limits of the power of ...
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... English painting before the establishment of the Royal Academy in 1768 , with one exception : “ Before Hogarth , there are no good painters at all ; to mention Jervas or Thornhill is only to prove our point . ” England took no true ...
... English painting before the establishment of the Royal Academy in 1768 , with one exception : “ Before Hogarth , there are no good painters at all ; to mention Jervas or Thornhill is only to prove our point . ” England took no true ...
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... English history . Marlborough was a supremely great general . From the start he was victorious against the French in Flanders ; then , when Louis's armies were about to invade Austria and besiege Vienna , Marlborough made a feint of ...
... English history . Marlborough was a supremely great general . From the start he was victorious against the French in Flanders ; then , when Louis's armies were about to invade Austria and besiege Vienna , Marlborough made a feint of ...
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... English parley began by stipulating that Louis's troops must help drive Louis's grandson off the Spanish throne , which , even on the verge of ruin , Louis balked at . So the war went on . But now three events , very disastrous to the ...
... English parley began by stipulating that Louis's troops must help drive Louis's grandson off the Spanish throne , which , even on the verge of ruin , Louis balked at . So the war went on . But now three events , very disastrous to the ...
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