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Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family

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Page : 328 pages

File Size : 21,81 MB

Release : 2021-06

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ISBN : 9780241487433

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A magnificent tribute to the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and a celebration of the British royal family. This book is a stunning visual guide to the world's most famous royals, from the Queen's Norman predecessors to her great-grandchildren. It features events such as the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and profiles on key people such as Princess Diana and Prince Harry. This new edition is revised to include the most recent events and milestones, such as the retirement of the Duke of Edinburgh, the birth of Charlotte, Louis, Archie, and other new family members, Harry and Meghan's wedding, and their decision to step back as senior members of the royal family. Including rare, restricted, and exclusive photos, this book examines the Queen's life in detail from her childhood to today, but also goes back through more than 1,000 years of history to tell the story of the House of Windsor and the entire succession of kings and queens of England and Scotland. With dazzling galleries of royal artefacts and photographic tours of sumptuous royal residences, this is the perfect book for fans of the Queen and royal family, fans of the Netflix series The Crown, or anyone interested in the history of the British monarchy.



Modern England 1901-1970

Author : Alfred Havighurst

Publisher : CUP Archive

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 22,52 MB

Release : 1976-05-13

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521209410

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This is a comprehensive bibliography of all printed books, articles and standard texts on England, Ireland, Scotland, the Commonwealth and the colonies up to 1970. This handbook will serve as a useful guide to scholars, teachers at all levels, advanced students, and the general reader interested in examining the period in some depth.



Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba

Author : Suzanne Preston Blier

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 793 pages

File Size : 35,71 MB

Release : 2017-11-02

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1107729173

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In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest to local residents and Westerners alike because of their tour-de-force visual power and technical complexity. Among the complementary subjects explored are questions of art making, art viewing and aesthetics in the famed ancient Nigerian city-state, as well as the attendant risks and danger assumed by artists, patrons and viewers alike in certain forms of subject matter and modes of portrayal, including unique genres of body marking, portraiture, animal symbolism and regalia. This volume celebrates art, history and the shared passion and skill with which the remarkable artists of early Ife sought to define their past for generations of viewers.



King Charles III

Author : Mike Bartlett

Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Page : 107 pages

File Size : 28,77 MB

Release : 2016-05-16

Category : Drama

ISBN : 0822232383

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THE STORY: The Queen is dead: After a lifetime of waiting, the prince ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule? Mike Bartlett’s controversial play explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family.





The True Law of Free Monarchies

Author : James I (King of England)

Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 21,51 MB

Release : 1996

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780969751267

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De Regno

Author : Thomas Aquinas

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Page : 130 pages

File Size : 36,48 MB

Release : 2014-12-18

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ISBN : 9780692354001

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This work by Aquinas begins by discussing different types of political systems, using the classical classifications. Only rule which is directed "towards the common good of the multitude is fit to be called kingship," he argues. Rule by one man who "seeks his own benefit from his rule and not the good of the multitude subject to him" is called a "tyrant." He argues that "Just as the government of a king is the best, so the government of a tyrant is the worst," maintaining that rule by a single individual is the most efficient for accomplishing either good or evil purposes. He then proceeds to discuss "how provision might be made that the king may not fall into tyranny," stressing education and noting that "government of the kingdom must be so arranged that opportunity to tyrannize is removed." He then proceeds to consider what honor is due to kings, to discuss the appropriate qualities of a king, and to make some points on founding and maintaining a city. Principium autem intentionis nostrae hinc sumere oportet, ut quid nomine regis intelligendum sit, exponatur.



Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture

Author : Jacques Bénigne Bossuet

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 500 pages

File Size : 44,84 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780521368070

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This 1991 book was the first ever English rendition of the classic statement of divine right absolutism, published in 1707. Jacques-Benigne Bossuet argues in the Politics that a general society of the entire human race, governed by Christian charity, has given way (after the Fall) to the necessity of politcs, law, and absolute hereditary monarchy. That monarchy - seen as natural, universal and divinely ordained (beginning with David and Solomon) is defended in the first half of the book. The last part, added soon before Bossuet's death, goes on to take up the rights of the Church, the distinction between absolutism and arbitrariness, and causes of just war. Patrick Riley has provided full supporting materials including a chronology, guide to further reading, and a lucid introduction placing Bossuet in his historical and intellectual context.



The King's Customs ...

Author : Henry Atton

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Page : 528 pages

File Size : 49,27 MB

Release : 1908

Category : Customs administration

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The London Gazette

Author : Great Britain

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Page : 868 pages

File Size : 32,13 MB

Release : 1678

Category : Great Britain

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