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James I (Penguin Monarchs)

2017-12-07 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2017-12-07
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Book Synopsis James I (Penguin Monarchs) by : Thomas Cogswell

Download or read book James I (Penguin Monarchs) written by Thomas Cogswell. This book was released on 2017-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James's reign marked one of the very rare major breaks in England's monarchy. Already James VI of Scotland and a highly experienced ruler who had established his authority over the Scottish Kirk, he marched south on Elizabeth I's death to become James I of England and Ireland, uniting the British Isles for the first time and founding the Stuart dynasty which would, with several lurches, reign for over a century. Indeed his descendant still occupies the throne. A complex, curious man and great survivor, James drastically changed court life in London and presided over such major projects as the Authorized Version of the Bible and the establishment of English settlements in Virginia, Massachusetts, Gujarat and the Caribbean. Although he failed to unite England and Scotland, he insisted that ambassadors acknowledge him as King of Great Britain and that vessels from both countries display a version of the current Union Flag. He was often accused of being too informal and insufficiently regal - but when his son, Charles I, decided to redress these criticisms in his own reign he was destroyed. How much of the roots of this disaster were to be found in James's reign is one of the many problems dramatized in Thomas Cogswell's brilliant and highly entertaining new book.

James II (Penguin Monarchs)

2015-04-30 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2015-04-30
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Book Synopsis James II (Penguin Monarchs) by : David Womersley

Download or read book James II (Penguin Monarchs) written by David Womersley. This book was released on 2015-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short, action-packed reign of James II (1685-88) is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British history. James managed, despite having access to tremendous reserves of good will and deference, to so alienate his supporters that he had to flee for his life. And yet, most of that life was spent not as king but first as heir to Charles II, as Duke of York (after whom New York is named) and then in the last part of his life as the first Jacobite 'Pretender', starting a problem that would haunt Britain's rulers for generations.

George I (Penguin Monarchs)

2017-12-07 History
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Release : 2017-12-07
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis George I (Penguin Monarchs) by : Tim Blanning

Download or read book George I (Penguin Monarchs) written by Tim Blanning. This book was released on 2017-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest. Born the youngest son of a landless German duke, he was taken by repeated strokes of good fortune to become, first the ruler of a major state in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and then the sovereign of three kingdoms (England, Ireland and Scotland). Tim Blanning's incisive short biography examines George's life and career as a German prince, and as King. Fifty-four years old when he arrived in London in 1714, he was a battle-hardened veteran, who put his long experience and deep knowledge of international affairs to good use in promoting the interests of both Hanover and Great Britain. When he died, his legacy was order and prosperity at home and power and prestige abroad. Disagreeable he may have been to many, but he was also tough, determined and effective, at a time when other European thrones had started to crumble.

Henry VI (Penguin Monarchs)

2016-12-29 History
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Release : 2016-12-29
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Henry VI (Penguin Monarchs) by : James Ross

Download or read book Henry VI (Penguin Monarchs) written by James Ross. This book was released on 2016-12-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry VI, son of the all-conquering Henry V, was one of the least able and least successful of English kings. His long reign, which started when he was only nine months old, ended in catastrophe, with the loss of England's territories in France and a bankrupt England's long decline into civil war: the wars of the Roses. Yet, failure though Henry undoubtedly was, he remains an enigma. Was he always, as he became in the last disastrous years of his rule, a holy fool, simple-minded to the point of insanity and prey to the ambitions of others? Or was he more active and, as some have suggested, actively malign? In this groundbreaking new portrait, James Ross shows a king whose priorities diverged sharply from what England expected of its monarchs, and whose fitful engagement with government was directly, though not solely, responsible for the disasters that engulfed the kingdom during his reign.

Charles I (Penguin Monarchs)

2014-12-04 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2014-12-04
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Book Synopsis Charles I (Penguin Monarchs) by : Mark Kishlansky

Download or read book Charles I (Penguin Monarchs) written by Mark Kishlansky. This book was released on 2014-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's brilliant account it is never in doubt that Charles created his own catastrophe, but he was nonetheless opposed by men with far fewer scruples and less consistency who for often quite contradictory reasons conspired to destroy him. This is a remarkable portrait of one of the most talented, thoughtful, loyal, moral, artistically alert and yet, somehow, disastrous of all this country's rulers.

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