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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... of Parliament need not prevent the < Pretender from seizing a British one . Nor was. 2 The House of Hanover meant , of course , constitutionalism . 4 For no better reason , apparently , than that [ 9 [ THE LAST STUART )
... of Parliament need not prevent the < Pretender from seizing a British one . Nor was. 2 The House of Hanover meant , of course , constitutionalism . 4 For no better reason , apparently , than that [ 9 [ THE LAST STUART )
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... better than to say all this in doubtful company , but among themselves they hatched an astonishing number of fireside plots . Thus , owing in some cases to the pull of the Stuart name , and in others to political principle , there was a ...
... better than to say all this in doubtful company , but among themselves they hatched an astonishing number of fireside plots . Thus , owing in some cases to the pull of the Stuart name , and in others to political principle , there was a ...
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... better than his rivals . It was not a moment when such a policy could be found at any convenient crossroads . Bolingbroke's first move was to angle for an alliance with the Whigs , whose fortunes were rising again ; but they freezingly ...
... better than his rivals . It was not a moment when such a policy could be found at any convenient crossroads . Bolingbroke's first move was to angle for an alliance with the Whigs , whose fortunes were rising again ; but they freezingly ...
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... better reason , apparently , than that they reminded her that she must die . There is another tale , however , that long ago one of them had come to England to court her , and returned to Hanover without doing so . 5 The Electress ...
... better reason , apparently , than that they reminded her that she must die . There is another tale , however , that long ago one of them had come to England to court her , and returned to Hanover without doing so . 5 The Electress ...
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... better or worse , every politician knew that she was the most important person in the kingdom . The Stuarts , like the Bourbons , had excellent memories , and an ambitious man who offended the Queen might discover , long afterwards ...
... better or worse , every politician knew that she was the most important person in the kingdom . The Stuarts , like the Bourbons , had excellent memories , and an ambitious man who offended the Queen might discover , long afterwards ...
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