Queen Anne the politics of passion
An assessment of the short twelve-year reign of Britain's last Stuart monarch recounts how she united England and Scotland as a sovereign state, offering additional insight into the military victories that laid the foundations for Britain's future naval and colonial supremacy.
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- But a daughter
- Religion before her father
- Sure never anybody was used to
- We are now in a new world
- These fatal distinctions of Whig and Tory
- The weight and change of a kingdom
- Nothing but uneasiness
- Entire and perfect union
- Guided by other hands
- Passions between women
- Making the breach wider
- The heat and ferment that is in this poor nation
- I do not like war
- The great work of peace
- The last troublesome scene of contention
- Not equal to the weight of the crown?.
