Author: R.A. Hazzard
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: phoenix, supplementary, volume, propaganda, ptolemaic, monarchy, studies, imagination
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2000-04-28
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0802043135
ISBN-13: 9780802043139
Scholars have long known that the Egyptian Ptolemaic monarchy underwent a transformation between 323 and 30 BC. The queens of that dynasty started as subordinates of the kings but ended as their superiors. Exactly when and how this change occurred has proven problematic for modern scholars. R.A. Hazzard argues that this change was put in motion by Ptolemy II, who glorified his sister ArsinoT and made acceptable a civilian style of kingship based on piety towards his real and mythical ancestors. Ptolemy’s support and elevation of his sister inspired the queens of the line to assert th
Author: Charles W. Ingrao
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: european, history, approaches, new, monarchy, habsburg
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-10-02
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 0521785057
ISBN-13: 9780521785051
This is a revised and updated edition of a highly acclaimed history of the early modern Habsburg monarchy. Charles Ingrao unravels the web of social, political, economic, and cultural factors that shaped the Habsburg monarchy during the period, and presents this complex story in a manner that is both authoritative and accessible to nonspecialists. This new edition underlines the importance of Habsburg history in more recent events, and remains the most comprehensive and readable introduction to the Habsburg story.
Author: Alison Weir
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: duchess, lancaster, swynford, katherine, monarchy, life, mistress
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-01-27
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0345453239
ISBN-13: 9780345453235
Acclaimed author Alison Weir has been prolific with her books on English royalty covering everything from the Houses of York and Lancaster to the reigns of the Tudors and beyond. Now this remarkable historian brings to life the extraordinary tale of the woman who was ancestor to them all: Katherine Swynford, a royal mistress who was to become one of the most crucial figures in the history of the British royal dynasties.Born in the mid-fourteenth century, Katherine de Roët was only twelve when she married Hugh Swynford, an impoverished knight. But her story had already begun when, at just ten
Author: Abbas Amanat
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: iranian, monarchy, shah, din, universe, nasir, pivot
Number of Pages: 532
Published: 1997-04-04
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0520083210
ISBN-13: 9780520083219
When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had occupied the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed remarkable resilience in the face of dilemmas and vulnerabilities shared by most monarchs of the Islamic world in the nineteenth century. The Pivot of the Universe is the first biography of this fascinating monarch. In it Amanat traces Nasir al-Din Shah’s transformation from an insecure crown prince, and later an erratic boy-king, to a ruler
Author: A. J. P. Taylor
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: austria, hungary, empire, austrian, monarchy, history, habsburg
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1976-05-15
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0226791459
ISBN-13: 9780226791456
First published in 1941, The Habsburg Monarchy has become indispensable to students of nineteenth-century European history. Not only a chronological report of actions and changes, Taylor’s work is a provocative exploration into the historical process of the most eventful hundred years of the Habsburg monarchy.
Author: Jeffrey Needell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: brazilian, monarchy, slavery, state, order, conservatives, party
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-08-11
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0804753695
ISBN-13: 9780804753692
This study analyzes Brazil’s monarchy, which adapted European ideas and practices to a creole plantation society that was traditionally based on African slavery. It focuses upon the Conservatives, who represented the sugar and coffee elites in reconstructing the new nation’s state as a strong, representative, constitutional monarchy in troubled times. After the monarch himself assumed power, however, his views undercut parliamentary and party government, which were also sapped by regional differences and the pressure for state patronage. Increasingly, the emperor and his cabinet
Author: A. J. van den Berg
Publisher: Europa Law Publishing
Keywords: prussia, austrian, monarchy, netherlands, france, law, european, codification, history, unification, politics
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $106.00
ISBN-10: 9076871485
ISBN-13: 9789076871486
