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George I (Penguin Monarchs)

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241380444

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 8mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 89g

  • RRP: £4.99

George I (Penguin Monarchs)

'One stroke of good fortune after another had taken him to be ... the sovereign of three kingdoms and thus ruler of what was rapidly becoming the most prosperous and powerful empire in the world'

George I was probably the most important of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England. He was certainly the luckiest, rising from the son of a landless German duke to rule an empire. Tim Blanning's incisive biography reveals George as a tough, effective and determined monarch, at a time when other European thrones had started to crumble.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241380444

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 8mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 89g

  • RRP: £4.99

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About the Author

Tim Blanning

Tim Blanning is the author of a number of major works on eighteenth century Europe, including The Pursuit of Glory : Europe 1648-1815, The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture and Joseph II. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. His latest book, Frederick the Great, won the British Academy Medal 2016.

Tim Blanning

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