Title Statements
- Full title :George I / Ragnhild Hatton ; foreword by Jeremy Black.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2001.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:New Haven
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2001.
The Physical Object
- Description:432 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0300088833, 9780300088830
- oclc:on1130006973
- Dewey Decimal:941.071
Table of Contents
Foreword to the yale edition / Jeremy Black -- I. Parents and childhood -- II. The electoral cap. The father's plans for his son. The family's advancement and George's marriage. The primogeniture struggle. George's divorce -- III. Experience gained. The Konigsmarck myth. George at the helm. The prospect of England. Struggle over the English succession between George and his mother. Wider German horizons. Losses of friends and companions -- IV. The royal crown. Hanover and Celle united. George's household after 1698. The War of the Spanish Succession. Death of queen Anne: the 'Act of Settlement' put into effect -- V. Settling down. Great Britain at the time of George's accession. George and the party system. The king's English. The royal household -- VI. Two issues of principle. The struggle for place and profit. Promotion by title. The Hanoverian succession -- VII. Three crises. George I's image. The Jacobite 'Fifteen'. European issues 1716-17. The ministerial crisis. Quarrel in the royal family -- VIII. The watershed 1718-21. Lessons learnt. European peace plans. Success in the south. Partial success in the north. Shifts of emphasis -- IX. Peace, its problems and achievements. Th…
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