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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Life in Eighteenth-century England Louis Kronenberger. - Whig chiefs , particularly Godolphin , he was embossing treason with slander . The Whigs , with the stung Godolphin in the lead , felt the necessity of taking action and , by ...
Life in Eighteenth-century England Louis Kronenberger. - Whig chiefs , particularly Godolphin , he was embossing treason with slander . The Whigs , with the stung Godolphin in the lead , felt the necessity of taking action and , by ...
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... Whigs , on the whole , stood for war , dissent , and the House of Hanover ; 2 the Tories for peace , orthodoxy , and , in some quarters , the Pretender : beyond that one cannot safely distinguish them . But within that orbit enmity ...
... Whigs , on the whole , stood for war , dissent , and the House of Hanover ; 2 the Tories for peace , orthodoxy , and , in some quarters , the Pretender : beyond that one cannot safely distinguish them . But within that orbit enmity ...
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... Whigs downfall the Hanoverian succession had been relatively safe , first because the Whigs supported it , and again because , the Queen being in no grave danger of dying , the counter - sentiment was still sketchy and diffused . But ...
... Whigs downfall the Hanoverian succession had been relatively safe , first because the Whigs supported it , and again because , the Queen being in no grave danger of dying , the counter - sentiment was still sketchy and diffused . But ...
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... Whigs , whose fortunes were rising again ; but they freezingly repulsed him . The moderate Tories , he knew , supported Harley ; and Whigs and moderate Tories alike supported Hanover . And with all these people loyal to Hanover just ...
... Whigs , whose fortunes were rising again ; but they freezingly repulsed him . The moderate Tories , he knew , supported Harley ; and Whigs and moderate Tories alike supported Hanover . And with all these people loyal to Hanover just ...
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... Whigs to rioting if not rebellion ; if so , he might send for a French army to put the insurrection down and , by the same stroke , neatly bring in the Pretender . But the Whigs were much too canny to fall into the trap . The chance of ...
... Whigs to rioting if not rebellion ; if so , he might send for a French army to put the insurrection down and , by the same stroke , neatly bring in the Pretender . But the Whigs were much too canny to fall into the trap . The chance of ...
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