Description: How a distinctively British form of monarchical government emerged 1714-1830, while the crowned heads of Europe faced serious, often insuperable crises - despite the decidedly mixed bag of British kings involved!
Brief description: Jeremy Black is Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University. He is a prolific lecturer and writer, the author of over 180 books. Many concern aspects of eighteenth-century British, European and American political, diplomatic and military history but he has also published on the history of the press, cartography, warfare, culture and on the nature and uses of history itself. He sits, or has sat, on the editorial boards of History Today, International History Review, Journal of Military History, and Media History.
Review Quotes: 'The book is a bravura performance, readable, thought provoking and perceptive. It is the definitive account of eighteenth-century British history and the monarchy.'-- "The Georgian, January 2026"