The Hanoverian Dimension In British History 1714 1837

Author : Brendan Simms,Torsten Riotte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139461870

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The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714–1837 by Brendan Simms,Torsten Riotte Pdf

For more than 120 years (1714–1837) Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This made Britain a continental European state in many respects, and diluted her sense of insular apartness. The geopolitical focus of Britain was now as much on Germany, on the Elbe and the Weser as it was on the Channel or overseas. At the same time, the Hanoverian connection was a major and highly controversial factor in British high politics and popular political debate. This volume was the first systematically to explore the subject by a team of experts drawn from the UK, US and Germany. They integrate the burgeoning specialist literature on aspects of the Personal Union into the broader history of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Never before had the impact of the Hanoverian connection on British politics, monarchy and the public sphere, been so thoroughly investigated.

Author : Brendan Simms,Lecturer in Modern European History Torsten Riotte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0511269986

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The Hanoverian Dimension in British History by Brendan Simms,Lecturer in Modern European History Torsten Riotte Pdf

The first systematic history of this 'Hanoverian dimension' of Great Britain.

Author : Leonard W. Cowie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041372942

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Hanoverian England, 1714-1837 by Leonard W. Cowie Pdf

Author : Nick Harding
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843833000

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Hanover and the British Empire, 1700-1837 by Nick Harding Pdf

A reappraisal of the links between Hanover and Great Britain, highlighting their previously un-explored importance.

Author : Andreas Gestrich,Michael Schaich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317029328

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The Hanoverian Succession by Andreas Gestrich,Michael Schaich Pdf

The Hanoverian succession of 1714 brought about a 123-year union between Britain and the German electorate of Hanover, ushering in a distinct new period in British history. Under the four Georges and William IV Britain became arguably the most powerful nation in the world with a growing colonial Empire, a muscular economy and an effervescent artistic, social and scientific culture. And yet history has not tended to be kind to the Hanoverians, frequently portraying them as petty-minded and boring monarchs presiding over a dull and inconsequential court, merely the puppets of parliament and powerful ministers. In order both to explain and to challenge such a paradox, this collection looks afresh at the Georgian monarchs and their role, influence and legacy within Britain, Hanover and beyond. Concentrating on the self-representation and the perception of the Hanoverians in their various dominions, each chapter shines new light on important topics: from rivalling concepts of monarchical legitimacy and court culture during the eighteenth century to the multi-confessional set-up of the British composite monarchy and the role of social groups such as the military, the Anglican Church and the aristocracy in defining and challenging the political order. As a result, the volume uncovers a clearly defined new style of Hanoverian kingship, one that emphasized the Protestantism of the dynasty, laid great store by rational government in close collaboration with traditional political powers, embraced army and navy to an unheard of extent and projected this image to audiences on the British Isles, in the German territories and in the colonies alike. Three hundred years after the succession of the first Hanoverian king, an intriguing new perspective of a dynasty emerges, challenging long held assumptions and prejudices.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317078548

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Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of George I, 1714-1727 by Jeremy Black Pdf

Through its focus on the relationship between foreign and domestic politics, this book provides a new perspective on the often fractious and tangled events of George I’s reign (1714-27). This was a period of transition for Britain, as royal authority gave way to cabinet government, and as the country began to exercise increased influence upon the world stage. It was a reign that witnessed the trauma of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, saw Britain fighting Spain as part of the Quadruple Alliance, and in which Britain confronted the rise of Russia under Peter the Great. There has been relatively little new detailed work on this subject since Hatton’s biography of George I appeared in 1978, and that book, while impressive, devoted relatively little attention to the domestic political dimension of foreign policy. In contrast, Black links diplomacy to domestic politics to show that foreign policy was a key aspect of government as well as the leading battleground both for domestic politics and for ministerial rivalries. As a result he demonstrates how party identities in foreign policy were not marginal, to either policy or party, but, instead, central to both. The research is based upon a wealth of both British and foreign archive material, including State Papers Domestic, Scotland, Ireland and Regencies, as well as Foreign. Extensive use is also made of parliamentary and ministerial papers, as well as the private papers of numerous diplomats. Foreign archives consulted include papers from Hanover, Osnabrück, Darmstadt, Marburg, Munich, Paris, The Hague, Vienna and Turin. By drawing upon such a wide ranging array of sources, this book offers a rich and nuanced view of politics and foreign policy under George I.

Author : Tom Tölle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110744606

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Heirs of Flesh and Paper by Tom Tölle Pdf

"Heirs of Flesh and Paper" tells the story of early modern dynastic politics through subjects’ practical responses to royal illness, failing princely reproduction, and heirs’ premature deaths. It treats connected dynastic crises between 1699 and 1716 as illustrative for early modern European political regimes in which the rulers’ corporeality defined politics. This political order grappled with the endemic uncertainties induced by dynastic bodies. By following the day-to-day practices of knowledge making in response to the unpredictability of royal health, the book shows how the ruling family’s mortal coils regularly threatened to destabilize the institutionalized legal fiction of kingship. Dynastic politics was not only as a transitory stage of state formation, part of elite cooperation, or a cultural construct. It needs to be approached through everyday practices that put ailing dynastic bodies front and center. In a period of intensifying political planning, it constituted one of the most important sites for changing the political itself.

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786830555

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Religion, Loyalty and Sedition by William Gibson Pdf

The Hanoverian Succession of 1714 has not attracted the scholarly attention that it deserves. This is partly because the idea of the ‘long eighteenth century’, stretching from 1688 to 1832, has tended to treat the period as one without breaks. However, 1714 was in some respects as significant a date as 1688. It was the last time in British history that there was a dynastic change and one in which religious issues were at the forefront in people’s minds. This collection of essays were among the papers delivered at conferences in 2014 to mark the tercentenary of the Hanoverian Succession of 1714, held at Oxford Brookes University and Bath Spa University. They reflect some of the major issues that were evident in the period before, during and after 1714. In particular, they deal with how disloyalty was managed by the government and by individuals. They also demonstrate how central religion was to the process of securing the Hanoverian Succession and to the identity of the new regime established by George I. Disloyalty – real or imagined – was apparent in legal suits, in sermons and preaching, and in the material culture of the period. And once the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 had been overcome, the need to secure the loyalty of the Church and clergy was a key objective of the government.

Author : Michael Kassler
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754660648

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A.F.C. Kollmann's Quarterly Musical Register (1812) by Michael Kassler Pdf

A.F.C. Kollmann (1756-1829) was born in Germany and moved to London in 1782, where he was organist and schoolmaster of His Majesty's German Chapel. He was one of the most profound music theorists of his time, and a pioneer in introducing Bach's music to England. His most extensive effort to inform the public about developments in the whole field of music was The Quarterly Musical Register--the first number of which is dated 1 January 1812. The journal folded after its second number. Only eight copies of the first number and six of the second appear to be extant. This book reproduces in facsimile both numbers, and presents new information about Kollmann's life and works.

Author : Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues,Manuela Santos Silva,Jonathan W. Spangler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351035125

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Dynastic Change by Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues,Manuela Santos Silva,Jonathan W. Spangler Pdf

Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the medieval and early modern eras. Taking a broadly comparative approach, Dynastic Change explores the mechanisms employed as well as theoretical and practical approaches to monarchical legitimisation. The book answers the question of how monarchical families reacted, adjusted or strategised when faced with dynastic crises of various kinds, such as a lack of a male heir or unfitness of a reigning monarch for rule, through the consideration of such themes as the role of royal women, the uses of the arts for representational and propaganda purposes and the impact of religion or popular will. Broad in both chronological and geographical scope, chapters discuss examples from the 9th to the 18th centuries across such places as Morocco, Byzantium, Portugal, Russia and Western Europe, showing readers how cultural, religious and political differences across countries and time periods affected dynastic relations. Bringing together gender, monarchy and dynasticism, the book highlights parallels across time and place, encouraging a new approach to monarchy studies. It is the perfect collection for students and researchers of medieval and early modern monarchy and gender.

Author : Paul Stock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192533876

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Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 by Paul Stock Pdf

Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.

Author : William Mulligan,Brendan Simms
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230289628

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The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000 by William Mulligan,Brendan Simms Pdf

External challenges, strategic threats, and war have shaped the course of modern British history. This volume examines how Britain mobilized to meet these challenges and how developments in the constitution, state, public sphere, and economy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour.

Author : Stephen Conway
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857733542

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A Short History of the American Revolutionary War by Stephen Conway Pdf

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something of a mythic character. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere's ride to raise the countryside of New England against the march of the Redcoats; and from the American travails of Bunker Hill (1775) to the final humiliation of the British at Yorktown (1781), the entire contest is now emblematic of American national identity. Stephen Conway shows that, beyond mythology, this was more than just a local conflict: rather a titanic struggle between France and Britain. The Thirteen Colonies were merely one frontline of an extended theatre of operations, with each superpower aiming to deliver the knockout blow. This bold new history recognizes the war as the Revolution but situates it on the wider, global canvas of European warfare.

Author : Karina Urbach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783598441233

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Royal Kinship. Anglo-German Family Networks 1815-1918 by Karina Urbach Pdf

Whenever the British Press wants to attack the Royal Family, they make a jibe about “their foreign roots”. The Royals – as they say – are simply a posh version of German invaders. But did German relatives really influence decisions made by any British monarchs or are they just an “imagined community”, invented by journalists and historians? The Royal Archives at Windsor gave the authors – among others John Röhl, doyen of 19th century monarchical history – open access to Royal correspondences with six German houses: Hanover, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Coburg, Hesse and Battenberg.

Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141978437

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George II (Penguin Monarchs) by Norman Davies Pdf

From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George II 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 attention remained in Hanover and on continental politics, as a result of which he was the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle, at Dettingen in 1744.