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- catalog abstract ""This biography of George IV, king between 1820 and 1830, provides a full and objective reassessment of the monarch's character, reputation and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavourable verdicts of the king's contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving dilettante and a feeble and ineffective ruler responsible for the decline of the power and reputation of the monarchy in the early nineteenth century. Now E.A. Smith offers a new view of George IV, one that does not minimise the king's faults but focuses on the positive qualities of his achievement in politics and in the patronage of the arts."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "George the 4th".
- catalog alternative "George the Fourth".
- catalog contributor b11104021.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History George III, 1760-1820.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History George IV, 1820-1830.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Kings and rulers Biography.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""This biography of George IV, king between 1820 and 1830, provides a full and objective reassessment of the monarch's character, reputation and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavourable verdicts of the king's contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving dilettante and a feeble and ineffective ruler responsible for the decline of the power and reputation of the monarchy in the early nineteenth century. Now E.A. Smith offers a new view of George IV, one that does not minimise the king's faults but focuses on the positive qualities of his achievement in politics and in the patronage of the arts."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "A Prince and his Education -- The Pursuit of Pleasure -- A Palace for a Prince -- Maria Fitzherbert -- Hopes Disappointed -- Clouds of War -- Caroline -- A Political Prince -- The Royal Malady Again -- Changing Allegiances -- Brothers and Sisters -- Prince Regent -- A Glorious Victory -- Rebellious Daughter -- Seditious Subjects and Turbulent Wife -- Crowned without a Queen -- King of Three Dominions -- The King's Servants -- 'The Invisible' -- Constitutional Monarch -- The Royal Builder -- Patron and Collector -- The King in Seclusion -- George IV's Children.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 306 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300076851 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "[Yale English monarchs]".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, Ct. : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History George III, 1760-1820.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History George IV, 1820-1830.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Kings and rulers Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "941.07/4/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "DA538.A1 S6 1999".
- catalog subject "George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.".
- catalog subject "Regency Great Britain.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A Prince and his Education -- The Pursuit of Pleasure -- A Palace for a Prince -- Maria Fitzherbert -- Hopes Disappointed -- Clouds of War -- Caroline -- A Political Prince -- The Royal Malady Again -- Changing Allegiances -- Brothers and Sisters -- Prince Regent -- A Glorious Victory -- Rebellious Daughter -- Seditious Subjects and Turbulent Wife -- Crowned without a Queen -- King of Three Dominions -- The King's Servants -- 'The Invisible' -- Constitutional Monarch -- The Royal Builder -- Patron and Collector -- The King in Seclusion -- George IV's Children.".
- catalog title "George IV / E.A. Smith.".
- catalog title "George the 4th".
- catalog title "George the Fourth".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".