Kings and desperate menTransaction Publishers, 1.11.2009 - 323 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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... Marlborough dismissed 1713 -— Treaty of Utrecht GEORGE I [reigned 1714-27] 1715 — Jacobite rebellion 1719 — Robinson Crusoe 1720 - South Sea Bubble 1721 — beginning of the Walpole administration 1722 - Wood's Halfpence 1727 — Gulliver's ...
... Marlborough, eighteenth century: Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, “She disdained the rapier and banged about with a tomahawk”; “She disdained the rapier and banged about with a tomahawk”; Robert Walpole, “a great spoke in the ...
... Marlborough abroad, and in what might as fairly be called the War of the Hanoverian Succession, conducted by conspirators at home. In the first, Whigs and Tories were clashing because of their opposed sources of wealth; in the second ...
... Marlborough with zeal where the Tories backed him with apprehension; and as time passed, both Marlborough and his ally at the Treasury, Godolphin, realized where their real support lay and abandoned the Tory camp. By 1708 the Whigs were ...
... Marlborough never lost an engagement, but he won Malplaquet at such a terrible cost in blood that Parliament did not thank him for it. And at such a moment, with his credit lowered, Marlborough made a rash request which proved a second ...
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Two or Three Characters | 25 |
Walpole and the House of Hanover | 42 |
Arisocrats with a Portrait of One of Them | 60 |
Shopkeepers | 89 |
The Poor | 98 |
The Arts | 108 |
Bath | 183 |
The Wesleyan Movement | 189 |
Empire and Revolution | 203 |
Kings and Counsellors | 215 |
The Great World | 247 |
The World Below | 263 |
The World Within | 273 |
The Bully and the Fop | 309 |
The Artist | 131 |
Country Matters | 161 |
The Country Gentleman | 168 |
Oxford and Cambridge | 175 |
READING LIST | 321 |
INDEX | i |
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