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Author : Brendan McConville
Release : 2006
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 660/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The King's Three Faces by : Brendan McConville
Download or read book The King's Three Faces written by Brendan McConville. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
Author : Brendan McConville
Release : 2012-12-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 861/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The King's Three Faces by : Brendan McConville
Download or read book The King's Three Faces written by Brendan McConville. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break with the king. By reading American history forward from the seventeenth century rather than backward from the Revolution, McConville shows that political conflicts long assumed to foreshadow the events of 1776 were in fact fought out by factions who invoked competing visions of the king and appropriated royal rites rather than used abstract republican rights or pro-democratic proclamations. The American Revolution, McConville contends, emerged out of the fissure caused by the unstable mix of affective attachments to the king and a weak imperial government. Sure to provoke debate, The King's Three Faces offers a powerful counterthesis to dominant American historiography.
Author : Marjorie Allen Seiffert
Release : 1929
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis The King with Three Faces by : Marjorie Allen Seiffert
Download or read book The King with Three Faces written by Marjorie Allen Seiffert. This book was released on 1929. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Nicholson
Release : 2002-05-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 432/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Three Faces of Saul by : Sarah Nicholson
Download or read book Three Faces of Saul written by Sarah Nicholson. This book was released on 2002-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating intertextual study of the classic biblical tragedy of Saul, the first king of Israel, as first narrated in biblical narrative and later reworked in Lamartine's drama Saul: Tragédie and Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. Plot and characterization are each explored in detail in this study, and in each of the narrations the hero's tragic fate emerges both as the result of a character flaw and also as a consequence of the ambivalent role of the deity, showing a double theme underlying not only the biblical vision but also its two very different retellings nearer to our own times.
Author : Lloyd C. Gardner
Release : 2011-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 754/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Three Kings by : Lloyd C. Gardner
Download or read book Three Kings written by Lloyd C. Gardner. This book was released on 2011-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Kings reveals a story of America's scramble for political influence, oil concessions, and a new military presence based on airpower and generous American aid to shaky regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and Iraq. Marshaling new and revelatory evidence from the archives, Lloyd Gardner deftly weaves together three decades of U.S. moves in the region to offer the first history of America's efforts to supplant the British empire in the Middle East. From the early efforts to support and influence the Saudi regime (including the creation of Dhahranairbase, the target of Osama bin Laden's first terrorist attack in 1996) and the CIA-engineered coup in Iran to Nasser's Egypt and, finally, the rise of Iraq as a major petroleum power, Three Kings is ''a valuable contribution to our understanding of our still-deepening involvement in this region'' (Booklist).As American policy makers and military planners grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, Gardner uncovers the largely hidden story of how the United States got into the Middle East in the first place.
