In this volume, the author has written a book whose value as pure history is no less than its interest as a study of four essentially ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances. He was the first to appreciate the complexity of George I, and he surveys the following three Georges with a similarly unjaundiced eye. His analysis of the four kings shows just what effect their reigns had on the history of their time. Whether or not the loss of the American colonies is generally regarded as inevitable or the fault of the ...
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In this volume, the author has written a book whose value as pure history is no less than its interest as a study of four essentially ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances. He was the first to appreciate the complexity of George I, and he surveys the following three Georges with a similarly unjaundiced eye. His analysis of the four kings shows just what effect their reigns had on the history of their time. Whether or not the loss of the American colonies is generally regarded as inevitable or the fault of the crown, Professor Plumb shows that the influence of the monarchy was paramount in many other respects during the 116 years of their reigns.
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Photo Illustrated. Good++ No Jacket. Book. Massmarket Paperback. Slight edgewear, small soil spot upper front cover. Owner name inside front cover, inside darkening. 189 pages, no stamps or writing in text.
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Very good(+) in very good jacket. 183 illustrations, 24 in color. 208pp., 4to, cloth, d.w.; some scratching to rear panel cover of dust wrapper. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1975). A very good (+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
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Good condition, crease to front cover, interior very clean. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own). Are you outside UK? Then unless you arrange shipping 'Via Alibris' we WILL cancel your order; this is due to the derisory shipping allowance that Alibris make to sellers for overseas orders.
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Very good. Lightly illustrated in b/w. 188 pages. 8vo, red cloth. New York: Macmillan, 1957. First edition. A very good copy--foxing to preliminaries, browning to fly, boards slightly cocked.
