George II (Penguin Monarchs)
Not Just a British Monarch
George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was thirty-one. He had a terrible relationship with his father, George I, which was later paralleled by his relationship to his own son. He was short-tempered and uncultivated, but in his twenty-three-year reign he presided over a great flourishing in his adoptive country - economic, military and cultural - all described with characteristic wit and elegance by Norman Davies. (George II so admired the Hallelujah chorus in Handel's Messiah that he stood while it was being performed - as modern audiences still do.) Much of his attentio…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-197843-7
- EAN: 9780141978437
- Produktnummer: 32804494
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Norman Davies
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