George III

Madness and Majesty

George III
Jeremy Black
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Hardback
h186 x 123mm - 160pg
3 Sep 2020 UK
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9780241248102
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King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of the future United States, George III has traditionally had a bad press as the villain of Whig history and for America' s Founding Fathers a monarch of madness - and, more recently, a figure of fun and menace in the musical Hamilton. Black turns back to the archives and instead locates George within his age as a man of duty and piety, and a king who faced the loss of key colonies, rebellion in Ireland, insurrection in London, constitutional crisis in Britain and an existential threat from Revolutionary France as part of modern Britain' s longest period of war. George III rose to these challenges with fortitude and helped settle parliamentary monarchy as an effective governmental system, eventually becoming the most popular monarch for well over a century. He was also a talented and curious individual, committed to music, art and science. Taking the duties of monarchy seriously, from reviewing death penalties to trying to organize his children, George III offers a fascinating guide to this most interesting of periods.
Jeremy Black MBE is Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. His two major fields of scholarship are military history and the eighteenth-century British history. Recent books include War andTechnology, Rethinking World War Two and England in the Age of Shakespeare. He has held visiting chairs at a number of American institutions, including West Point, and received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008.
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ISBN-13: 9780241248102
Published: 3 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Allen Lane
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 186mm
Width: 123mm
Pages: 160

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