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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... Tories , out of power and out of pocket , were in no mood to find personal solace in national réclame . They began to mutter that the Whigs were continuing the war for their own advantage , and that Marlborough was directing it for his ...
... Tories , out of power and out of pocket , were in no mood to find personal solace in national réclame . They began to mutter that the Whigs were continuing the war for their own advantage , and that Marlborough was directing it for his ...
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... Tory as Robert Harley ; above everything , the Queen's power to appoint and dismiss ministers – all these combined ... Tories , under Harley and his lieutenant Bolingbroke , " came back into power . Their object was peace . Marlborough ...
... Tory as Robert Harley ; above everything , the Queen's power to appoint and dismiss ministers – all these combined ... Tories , under Harley and his lieutenant Bolingbroke , " came back into power . Their object was peace . Marlborough ...
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... Tories for peace , orthodoxy , and , in some quarters , the Pretender : beyond that one cannot safely distinguish them . But within that orbit enmity seethed and spat ; and vast though it was , the war became at times almost a screen ...
... Tories for peace , orthodoxy , and , in some quarters , the Pretender : beyond that one cannot safely distinguish them . But within that orbit enmity seethed and spat ; and vast though it was , the war became at times almost a screen ...
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... Tory bishops and Tory squires prominently among them - them - who , when it came to divine right , were as royalist as James . They had believed , at the time of the Revolution , in non - resistance , and they still believed that the ...
... Tory bishops and Tory squires prominently among them - them - who , when it came to divine right , were as royalist as James . They had believed , at the time of the Revolution , in non - resistance , and they still believed that the ...
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... 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 became urgent . Then , too , the Pretender's adherents were almost all Tories ...
... 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 became urgent . Then , too , the Pretender's adherents were almost all Tories ...
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