Author: Edward Gregg
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: english, monarchs, series, anne, queen, yale
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0300090242
ISBN-13: 9780300090246
The reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, was a period of significant progress for the country: Britain became a major military power on land, the union of England and Scotland created a united kingdom of Great Britain, and the economic and political basis for the Golden Age of the eighteenth century was established. However, the queen herself never received credit for these achievements and has long been depicted as a weak and ineffectual monarch dominated by her advisers. This landmark biography of Queen Anne shatters that image and establishes her as a personality of integrity and i
Author: John Halliday
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Keywords: monarchs, shooting
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0689843380
ISBN-13: 9780689843389
Macy grew up unwanted, unloved, and alone. By his teens he had quit school and begun stealing. In and out of juvie, Macy is a shoplifter, a car thief, and, by age eighteen, a murderer. Danny grew up physically disabled, raised by his grandmother, and a loner. Now sixteen, he finds solace in taking photographs, particularly of monarch butterflies, and thinking about Leah, the most beautiful girl in town. It is Leah who unwittingly causes these two very different boys, who share some startling similarities, to meet in a first and final terrifying encounter. The outcome of this hard-hitting a
Author: Bea Oglesby
Publisher: American Quilter’s Society
Keywords: amp, monarchs, album, butterfly
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2004-12-13
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1574328719
ISBN-13: 9781574328714
Welcome to the wonderful world of butterflies. Over three dozen beautiful butterfly patterns, including several Monarchs in different shapes and sizes, are just begging to be appliqued. With each pattern is a color photograph of the appliqued block, a full-sized butterfly pattern, and tips on applique technique and fabric selection. The reader will also find a fascinating guidebook-like description of each butterfly and its characteristics. The patterns are fun to do, with only three pieces in the Checkered White butterfly, and most of the butterflies having only five to nine pieces to appliqu
Author: W. L. Warren
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: monarchs, english, henry
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1977-11-28
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0520034945
ISBN-13: 9780520034945
Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgments ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers, but with no unanimity of interpretation. That he was a great king there can be no doubt. Yet his motives and intentions are not easy to divine, and it is Professor Warren’s contention that concentration on the great crises of the reign can lead to distortion.
Author: W. L. Warren
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: monarchs, english, john, king
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 1978-10-09
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520036433
ISBN-13: 9780520036437
King John is a study not only of a king and his political misfortunes, but also of a period--a period of profound changes in society at large, and hence one of unprecedented stressed. John’s personality, so distorted by chronicles such as Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris, is investigated through his acts: but he is seen also against the background of his predecessors on the throne, of the society in which he lived and of the problems that were posed for a rule by that society.John was the fourth son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine to survive to manhood. In his younger days he was
Author: Michael Prestwich
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: monarchs, english, edward
Number of Pages: 633
Published: 1988-08
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520062663
ISBN-13: 9780520062665
Professor Prestwich’s study of Edward I, first published in 1988, is a full-length account of one of the leading monarchs of the Middle Ages. A king who pioneered legal and parliamentary change, conquered Wales and came close to conquering Scotland, Edward also governed Gascony in south-west France and played a major part in European diplomacy and war. Examining the full range of manuscript sources, the book reveals a capable monarch facing complex simultaneous challenges.
Author: Ragnhild Hatton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: series, monarchs, english, george
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0300088833
ISBN-13: 9780300088830
In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight-year-old elector of Brunswick- Luneburg, became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both elector of Hanover and British monarch. An enigmatic figure whose real character has long been concealed by anti-Hanoverian propaganda, George emerges in this groundbreaking biography as an impressive ruler who welcomed the responsibilities the accession brought him and set out to bring culture to what he considered the unsophisticated English nation. Ragnhild Hatton’s biograph
