GEORGE III: THE LIFE AND REIGN OF BRITAIN'S MOST MISUNDERSTOOD MONARCH
Written by Andrew Roberts
Published by Allen Lane
in 2021
ISBN: 9780241413333
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GEORGE III: THE LIFE AND REIGN OF BRITAIN'S MOST MISUNDERSTOOD MONARCH
Written by Andrew Roberts.
Stock no. 1829786
1st.
2021.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Grey paper boards, black title to spine. Cream pictorial endpapers depicting a hunting scene. Colour & b/w illustrations. xiii and 758 pages including index. ISBN: 9780241413333. Base of spine and lower corners lightly bumped. Text block very slightly grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed and lightly scuffed to rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Family Tree
- Maps
- Author's Note
- Introduction
- 1 Prince of Wales: June 1738 - May 1756
- 2 Seizing an Empire: May 1756 - October 1760
- 3 'I Glory in the name of Briton': October 1760 - January 1762
- 4 Victory: January 1762 - February 1763
- 5 The Problems of Peace: February - October 1763
- 6 Sugar, Stamps and Silk: November 1763 - May 1765
- 7 Rockingham Repeals the Stamp Act: May 1765 - December 1766
- 8 'The Apple of Discord': January 1767 - June 1769
- 9 'That Factious and Disobedient Temper': June 1769 - April 1772
- 10 The Boston Tea Party: June 1772 - July 1774
- 11 'Blows Must Decide': August 1774 - April 1775
- 12 'The Battle of the Legislature': April - November 1775
- 13 The Declaration of Independence: November 1775 - July 1776
- 14 The Road to Saratoga: July 1776 - December 1777
- 15 Global War: December 1777 - June 1778
- 16 'If Others Will Not be Active, I Must Drive': June 1778 - March 1780
- 17 Disaster at Yorktown: March 1780 - October 1781
- 18 'The Torrent is too Strong': October 1781 - July 1782
- 19 'America is Lost'!: July 1782 - July 1783
- 20 'On the Edge of a Precipice': August 1783 - May 1784
- 21 Alliance with Pitt: May 1784 - October 1788
- 22 The King's Malady: October 1788 - February 1789
- 23 Recovery, Revolution and War: February 1789 - May 1794
- 24 The Whale and the Wolf: May 1794 - December 1798
- 25 'The Corsican Tyrant': January 1799 - February 1801
- 26 'A Fearful Experiment': February 1801 - September 1804
- 27 Tory Spring: October 1804 - October 1809
- 28 King Lear Redux: October 1809 - January 1820
- Conclusion: The Nobility of George III