Download or read book Walpole in Power written by Jeremy Black and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid account of the leader who shaped 18th century English politics and culture focuses on his 20 years in office.
Download or read book The Great Man written by Edward Pearce and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The year 1721 has many splendors, but there are also 13 public hanging days a year, drunkenness is endemic, and organized crime rampages through the streets. Only a generation earlier James II, suspected of conspiring to enforce Roman Catholicism and subordinate England to France, was driven out by the Whigs. In 1715 his son, the Pretender, failed to take the Crown by armed force. The new King, George I, an intelligent, moderate man, is cursed everywhere as a damned foreigner. James's followers, the Jacobites, conspire and are persecuted. In 1720, the South Sea Bubble, an attempt to finance state debt by runaway speculation, collapses. Ruined people mass in Westminster. The South Sea directors, says an MP, should be thrown into the sea. The Pretender could take over any day. Robert Walpole, once imprisoned for financial chicanery, assumes political control. When the rage subsides he becomes chief minister--or, a new title, "Prime Minister." He personally detects a Jacobite plot. Digging in, he buys parliamentary seats wholesale with secret service money. In a runaway theatrical success, "The Beggar's Opera", Walpole is compared with the criminal mastermind Jonathan Wild. But he will dominate King, Parliament, and Government until 1742. Dismissed in 1727 on the death of George I, he recruits the new King's clever wife, Caroline, and bounces cheerfully back. Coarse, corrupt, and cynical, Walpole sits on the Treasury Bench munching little Norfolk apples sent from the estate he is enlarging with political profit. This is Mr. Worldlywiseman, keeping England out of war for 20 years and setting up a stable and growing economy. All politics of a kind we can recognize begin with Robert Walpole. And here, in Edward Pearce's elegant book, he is brought vividly back to life."--Publisher description.
Download or read book England written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Summary of Ransome s Short History of England written by Cyril Ransome and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Cassell s Illustrated History of England written by John Frederick Smith and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Robert Walpole s Poets written by Tone Sundt Urstad and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During Sir Robert Walpole's term as "Prime Minister" exorbitant amounts of money were spent on propaganda in support of his administration. Since nearly all the major writers of the period adopted an anti-government stance, however, historians have shown far more interest in the organization and contents of opposition propaganda than in its pro-government counterpart. This book is the first comprehensive study of the literature published in support of Walpole's administration, and explores important pro-government themes, and also explains how the propaganda network was organized and what precisely the Old Corps Whig leadership hoped to achieve."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford With Original Correspondence and Authentic Papers Never Before Published With Plates Including a Portrait written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole written by Matthew M. Reeve and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace Walpole (1717–1797) and his circle cannot be understood independently of their own homoerotic culture. Centered around Walpole’s Gothic villa at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Walpole and his “Strawberry Committee” of male friends, designers, and dilettantes invigorated an extraordinary new mode of Gothic design and disseminated it in their own commissions at Old Windsor and Donnington Grove in Berkshire, Lee Priory in Kent, the Vyne in Hampshire, and other sites. Matthew M. Reeve argues that the new “third sex” of homoerotically inclined men and the new “modern styles” that they promoted—including the Gothic style and chinoiserie—were interrelated movements that shaped English modernity. The Gothic style offered the possibility of an alternate aesthetic and gendered order, a queer reversal of the dominant Palladian style of the period. Many of the houses built by Walpole and his circle were understood by commentators to be manifestations of a new queer aesthetic, and in describing them they offered the earliest critiques of what would be called a “queer architecture.” Exposing the role of sexual coteries in the shaping of eighteenth-century English architecture, this book offers a profound and eloquent revision to our understanding of the origins of the Gothic Revival and to medievalism itself. It will be welcomed by architectural historians as well as scholars of medievalism and specialists in queer studies.
Download or read book English Drama written by Richard W. Bevis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the entire period for more than a decade, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian history. The years between 1660 and 1789 saw considerable political and social upheaval, which is reflected in the eclectic array of dramatic forms that is Georgian theatre's essential characteristic.
Download or read book The Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Oxford written by Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge history of English literature The age of Johnson written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge History of English Literature written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole East of Oxford 3 written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of England written by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Popular History of England written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
