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Monarchy: England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors by: David Starkey List Price: £8.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.24 You Save: £2.75 (31%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780007247660 ISBN: 0007247664 Label: HarperPerennial Manufacturer: HarperPerennial Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: September 03, 2007 Publisher: HarperPerennial Studio: HarperPerennial Sales Rank: 64765 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Express: 'Starkey is an energetic and authoritative guide...' Sunday Times: 'Starkey, always an engaging writer, has a gift for bringing ideas as well as individuals to life.' Daily Telegraph: 'This work has real drive, and it is often hard to remember how dull history could be at school.' Daily Express: 'Starkey brings the past to vivid life.' Synopsis: David Starkey's thrilling new paperback charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century. With both authority and verve, David Starkey unmasks the personalities and achievements, the defeats and victories, that lie behind the monarchs that form the backbone of British history. This magisterial study begins with the Tudors -- five monarchs who ruled over England and Ireland until the reformation of the 1530s -- and continues with the Stuarts who followed them. It includes Oliver Cromwell, a non monarch, who ruled as Lord Protector, a 'king in all but name', and the Georgians, a dynasty that began with the accession of George I and ended with the death of George IV. In a new, final chapter Starkey brings his study to the present day, examining the iconic role of Victoria and her controversial successors; concluding with Elizabeth II and questions of what we have gained, or indeed lost, through the monarchy, and considering the troubled status of their future. More important than this, 'Monarchy' encompasses the greatest and most notorious events in our history.From the War of the Roses to the infamous Gunpowder Plot, the bloody battles of the English Civil War to the madness of King George III, the Napoleonic Era to the heyday of Empire under Victoria, and finally to our present day Queen Elizabeth II,'Monarchy' offers a radical reappraisal of English nationhood, culture and politics, shown through the most central institution in English life.With characteristic insight and perceptiveness, Starkey gives new life to these figures, producing an entertaining and masterful picture of the building blocks upon which the England of today is built on. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Read the reviews for the hardback version alsoIf you are thinking of buying this book then I suggest you read the reviews for the hard back version also. Most reviewers have rated this quite highly. Rating:  - Monarchy, from the Tudors to the Windsors David Starkey should stick to TV documentary portrayals of history, because without the TV behind him he is DULL DULL DULL. All he has succeeded in doing - with this book - and I've read a few - is reducing the story of this explosive period to the dull chronology of a cost-effective and judiciously-crafted university lecture. Any fool can do that. VERY disappointed. At £8.99 - frankly, 10 x what it is worth. Guy Croft |
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