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"The House of Hanover (the Hanoverians pron.: /hænvrnz/) is a German royal dynasty which has ruled the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg (German: Braunschweig-Lüneburg), the Kingdom of Hanover, the Kingdom of Great Britain, the Kingdom of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It succeeded the House of Stuart as monarchs of Great Britain and Ireland in 1714 and held that office until the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. They are...
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"In this collection of essays, a group of distinguished American and British historians explore the relations between the American Revolution, the Puritan Revolution of 1641 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. By locating the Puritan Revolution at the beginning rather than at the end of a historical period, and by focusing directly on the transition from Tudor to a Whig aristocratic order, these scholars offer a new perspective on all three revolutions...
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"We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham,...
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Marilyn Butler places the Romantics into their proper historical setting. She relates the events and developments of the time--the French and American Revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars, the expansion of agriculture, trade, and industry, growing economic and social pressures--to the cultural forces which shaped these writers. She reveals common factors which engaged the separate efforts of so many truly individual creative minds, and the fierce personal...
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The author concentrates his analysis on two related themes. The first, the politics of pastoral, analyzes the use of this genre by established writers such as Wordsworth and Janet Austen, and poets such as John Clare and Robert Bloomfield. His second theme, the theatre of politics, introduces the reader to some of the main polical events of the period which concludes with an analysis of Shelley's political writings and a discussion of Byron's political...
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For over a hundred years (1714 - 1830) a King George sat on the British throne. It was a time of transformation, as cities grew, industry thrived and trade expanded round the world. New prosperity was celebrated in great country houses and beautifully landscaped gardens, while taste and elegance drove social etiquette and fostered a new consumer boom. Travel became easier, from Grand Tours for the rich to journeys by stagecoach or private carriage...
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