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Book THE MONARCH S SON

    Book Details:
  • Author : Valerie Parv
  • Publisher : Silhouette
  • Release : 2014-06-15
  • ISBN : 1460352343
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book THE MONARCH S SON written by Valerie Parv and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HE'D SAVED HER LIFE When the riptide unloosed her, Allie Carter washed ashore at the feet of Lorne de Marigny, monarch of Carramer. A prince unparalleled in handsomeness…and in having his desires fulfilled. And he demanded that Allie remain at his villa with him and his son. COULD SHE RESCUE A PRINCE? Acting as adorable Nori's companion silenced those who'd question Allie's relationship with the widower prince. But Allie needed to know why Lorne seemed so tortured. Why he rarely spoke of his wife, when his child so desperately wanted a mother. And if there was a place for her with Lorne and his son… THE CARRAMER CROWN One by one, royal siblings discover passion more powerful than any monarchy.

Book The Son King

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  • Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021-02-01
  • ISBN : 0197580505
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Son King written by Madawi Al-Rasheed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi regime operatives, shocking the international community and tarnishing the reputation of Muhammad bin Salman, the kingdom's young, reformist crown prince. Domestically, bin Salman's reforms have proven divisive, and his adoption of populist nationalism and fierce repression of diverse critical voices--religious scholars, feminists and dissident youth--have failed to silence a vibrant and well-connected Saudi society. Madawi Al-Rasheed lays bare the world of repression behind the crown prince's reforms. She dissects the Saudi regime's propaganda and progressive new image, while also dismissing Orientalist views that despotism is the only pathway to stable governance in the Middle East. Charting old and new challenges to the fragile Saudi nation from the kingdom's very inception, this blistering book exposes the dangerous contradictions at the heart of the Son King's Saudi Arabia.

Book The Son King

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  • Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021-02-01
  • ISBN : 0197580513
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book The Son King written by Madawi Al-Rasheed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi regime operatives, shocking the international community and tarnishing the reputation of Muhammad bin Salman, the kingdom's young, reformist crown prince. Domestically, bin Salman's reforms have proven divisive, and his adoption of populist nationalism and fierce repression of diverse critical voices--religious scholars, feminists and dissident youth--have failed to silence a vibrant and well-connected Saudi society. Madawi Al-Rasheed lays bare the world of repression behind the crown prince's reforms. She dissects the Saudi regime's propaganda and progressive new image, while also dismissing Orientalist views that despotism is the only pathway to stable governance in the Middle East. Charting old and new challenges to the fragile Saudi nation from the kingdom's very inception, this blistering book exposes the dangerous contradictions at the heart of the Son King's Saudi Arabia.

Book The Sidneys of Penshurst and the Monarchy  1500 1700

Download or read book The Sidneys of Penshurst and the Monarchy 1500 1700 written by Michael G. Brennan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fields of politics, culture and literature the Sidney family was undoubtedly one of the major players in early modern England. This study provides the first book-length examination of their importance to political and court life, both in supporting the monarchy and parliament and in exploring alternative modes of government. Drawing upon both historical and literary sources it offers an absorbing insight into the self-perceptions of a leading renaissance family and how they adapted to the vicissitudes of the sixteenth and seventeenth century world.

Book Royal Renegades

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  • Author : Linda Porter
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2018-02-20
  • ISBN : 1466858486
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Royal Renegades written by Linda Porter and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishers Weekly called Katherine the Queen “Rich, perceptive, and creative.” In Royal Renegades, Porter examines the turbulent lives of the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars. The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known, as is the restoration of his eldest son as Charles II eleven years later. But what happened to the king’s six surviving children is far less familiar. Casting new light on the heirs of the doomed king, acclaimed historian Linda Porter brings to life their personalities, legacies, and rivalries for the first time. As their family life was shattered by war, Elizabeth and Henry were used as pawns in the parliamentary campaign against their father; Mary, the Princess Royal, was whisked away to the Netherlands as the child bride of the Prince of Orange; Henriette, Anne’s governess, escaped with the king’s youngest child to France where she eventually married the cruel and flamboyant Philippe d’Orleans. When their "dark and ugly" brother Charles eventually succeeded his father to the English throne after fourteen years of wandering, he promptly enacted a vengeful punishment on those who had spurned his family, with his brother James firmly in his shadow. A tale of love and endurance, of battles and flight, of educations disrupted, the lonely death of a young princess and the wearisome experience of exile, Royal Renegades charts the fascinating story of the children of loving parents who could not protect them from the consequences of their own failings as monarchs and the forces of upheaval sweeping England.

Book The Politics of Succession

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  • Author : Andrej Kokkonen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2022-07-20
  • ISBN : 0192897519
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book The Politics of Succession written by Andrej Kokkonen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of the ruler poses a significant threat to the stability of any polity. Arranging for a peaceful and orderly succession has been a formidable challenge in most historical societies, and it continues to be a test that modern authoritarian regimes regularly face and often fail. Drawing on a unique dataset of the life and fates of monarchs in all major monarchies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, The Politics of Succession documents how succession have historically been moments of violence and insecurity. Deaths of rulers were often associated with civil war, and the shadow cast by looming successions caused coups and depositions. But this book also shows that the development and spread of primogeniture - the eldest-son-taking-the-throne - mitigated the problem of succession in Europe in the period after AD 1000. The predictability and stability that followed from a clear hereditary principle outweighed the problems of incompetent and irrational rulers sometimes inheriting power. The data used in the book demonstrates that primogeniture reduced the risk of depositions and civil war following the inevitable deaths of leaders. In this way, hereditary monarchy helped create political stability and lengthen the time horizons of rulers and elites alike, thereby facilitating state-building. The book thus sheds light on the rationale of a system of leader selection that today often appears illogical and outdated - and it uses these findings to shed light on the key advantage of modern representative democracy: its ability to complete power transfers peacefully.

Book History of Ireland  ancient and modern  Translated     by P  O Kelly

Download or read book History of Ireland ancient and modern Translated by P O Kelly written by James MACGEOGHEGAN and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hiscoke and Son s Richmond Notes

Download or read book Hiscoke and Son s Richmond Notes written by Hiscoke & Son and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Annals of Ireland  from A D  1171 to A D  1616   Translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters by O Connellan  with Annotations by P  MacDermott and the Translator

Download or read book The Annals of Ireland from A D 1171 to A D 1616 Translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters by O Connellan with Annotations by P MacDermott and the Translator written by Michael O'Clery and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dod s Peerage  Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book Dod s Peerage Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Ireland  Ancient and Modern

Download or read book The History of Ireland Ancient and Modern written by James MacGeoghegan and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cosmography in Four Books

Download or read book Cosmography in Four Books written by Peter Heylyn and published by . This book was released on 1703 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters as translated into English by Owen Connellan

Download or read book Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters as translated into English by Owen Connellan written by Michael O'Clery and published by Irish Roots Cafe. This book was released on 2003 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the 2 book set for "The Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters" as translated by Owen Connellan. This is the volume that contains the large fold-out map at the back of the book.

Book Royal Heirs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Lorenz Müller
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2022-12-31
  • ISBN : 1009081152
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Royal Heirs written by Frank Lorenz Müller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the odds, monarchies flourished in nineteenth-century Europe. In an era marked by dramatic change and revolutionary upheaval, Europe's monarchies experienced an unexpected late flowering. Royal Heirs focuses on the roles and personalities of the heirs to the throne from more than a dozen different dynasties that ruled the continent between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. The book explores how these individuals contributed to the remarkable survival of the crowns they were born to wear. Constitutions, family relationships, education, politics, the media, the need to generate 'soft power' and the militarisation of monarchy all shaped the lives of princes and princesses while they were playing their part to embody and secure the future of monarchy. Ranging from Norway to Spain and from Greece to Britain, Royal Heirs not only paints a vivid picture of a monarchical age, but also explores how such disparate monarchies succeeded in adapting to change and defending their position.