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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... dying in exile at Saint - Germains , to recognize his son as “ James III . ” This , to England , was a threat as well as an insult ; and along with her allies and some auxiliary supporters , she declared war on France . The war plainly ...
... dying in exile at Saint - Germains , to recognize his son as “ James III . ” This , to England , was a threat as well as an insult ; and along with her allies and some auxiliary supporters , she declared war on France . The war plainly ...
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... died , there was no direct heir to the throne . James II's son was growing up , a Catholic , in France ; and his religion was even more of a taint than his surroundings . Parliament , after scrutinizing family trees , at length passed ...
... died , there was no direct heir to the throne . James II's son was growing up , a Catholic , in France ; and his religion was even more of a taint than his surroundings . Parliament , after scrutinizing family trees , at length passed ...
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... dying , the counter - sentiment was still sketchy and diffused . But after the Tories took power in 1710 , the situation changed . The Queen , racked by gout and dropsy , was coming on her last legs , and the question of her successor ...
... dying , the counter - sentiment was still sketchy and diffused . But after the Tories took power in 1710 , the situation changed . The Queen , racked by gout and dropsy , was coming on her last legs , and the question of her successor ...
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... dying . Yet time was needed , for Bolingbroke had no mature plans or respectable allies , no sure way of keeping afloat in Harley's place , let alone of making the stubbornly Catholic Pretender king ... died 14 ] [ KINGS & DESPERATE MEN )
... dying . Yet time was needed , for Bolingbroke had no mature plans or respectable allies , no sure way of keeping afloat in Harley's place , let alone of making the stubbornly Catholic Pretender king ... died 14 ] [ KINGS & DESPERATE MEN )
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... died on Sunday . What a world is this , and how does fortune banter us ! ” For a few days , with handcuffs on his wrists , he had achieved his dream of heading the Government . Now nothing was left for him , and little for the Pretender ...
... died on Sunday . What a world is this , and how does fortune banter us ! ” For a few days , with handcuffs on his wrists , he had achieved his dream of heading the Government . Now nothing was left for him , and little for the Pretender ...
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