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The Early Hanoverians

The Early Hanoverians

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Number of Chapters: 34

Length: 07 hours and 33 minutes

Language: English

In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old king assumed the throne when James Stuart roused the Highlanders in the "Fifteen." Five years later the collapse of the South Sea Company convulsed Britain and her first prime minister, Robert Walpole, emerged to stabilize the country's finances. George II succeeded his father in 1727 and Morris writes that "the new King was in person short, and like many short men, proud and touchy." Fortunately, he was guided by the wise Queen Caroline. On the Continent, the Turks besieged Vienna, Britain got embroiled first in the War of Jenkins' Ear and then in the War of the Austrian Succession, while Bonnie Prince Charlie took advantage of these distractions to mount the nearly successful Jacobite invasion of the "Forty-five." Meanwhile, John Wesley's Methodism revived religious enthusiasm, Boswell immortalized Samuel Johnson and his friends, and Tom Jones embarked on an epic road trip in which Henry Fielding brought English society to life, warts and all. - Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.

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Bk. I: The Long Peace, Ch. 1: Europe After Utrecht (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 2: George I (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 3: The Electorate (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 4: First Measures (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 5: The Fifteen (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 6: Septennial Act and Peerage Bill (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 7: France and Spain (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 8: Law and the South Sea Bubble (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 9: Sir Robert Walpole (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 10: Atterbury and Bolingbroke (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 11: Nearly a European War (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 12: Death of George I and of Sir Isaac Newton (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 13: George II and Queen Caroline (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 14: The Porteous Riots (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. I, Ch. 15: Walpole's Fall (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II: The Wars, Ch. 1: The Turks (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 2: Polish Succession War (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 3: Jenkins' Ear (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 4: Anson's Voyage (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 5: Austrian Succession (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 6: Battle of Dettingen (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 7: Dettingen to Fontenoy (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 8: Campaign of Fontenoy (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 9: The Forty-Five, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 9: The Forty-Five, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 9: The Forty-Five, Pt. 3 (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 10: Remainder of the Continental War (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. II, Ch. 11: Peace of Aix-La-Chapelle (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. III: Religion and Letters, Ch. 1: Wesley and Butler (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. III, Ch. 2: Berkeley and Oglethorpe (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. III, Ch. 3: English Literature, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. III, Ch. 3: English Literature, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. III, Ch. 4: French Literature, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Bk. III, Ch. 4: French Literature, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
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