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Leader LDR cam a 00
Control # 1 hbl99051602
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20210215180211.0
Fixed Data 8 120214s2011 enkj b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2011534566
ISBN 20    $a9780312581756
Obsolete 39    $a272926$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$cDLC$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $ae-uk-st
LC Call 50 00 $aDA28.35.S89$bM37 2011
Dewey Class 82 00 $a941.06$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aMassie, Allan,$d1938-
Title 245 14 $aThe royal Stuarts :$ba history of the family that shaped Britain /$cAllan Massie.
Edition 250    $a1st U.S. ed.
Imprint 260    $aNew York :$bThomas Dunne Books,$c2011.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a370 p. :$bgeneal. tables ;$c22 cm.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [331]-350) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aThe Stewards: origins in legend and history -- Robert II (1371-90): the first Stewart king -- Robert III (1390-1406): a troubled reign -- James I (1406-37): the poet-king -- James II (1437-60): a quick-tempered king -- James III (1460-88): a study in failure -- James IV (1488-1513): the flower of the Scottish Renaissance -- James V (1513-42): people's king or tyrant? -- Mary (1542-67): Scotland's tragic queen -- James VI and I (1567-1625): the king as survivor -- Charles I (1625-49): the martyr king -- The interregnum and the scattered family (1649-60) -- Charles II (1649-85): a merry and cynical monarch -- James VII and II (1685-88): author of his own tragedy -- William III (1689-1702) and Mary II (1689-94): revolution settlement and Dutch rule -- Anne (1702--14): end of an old song -- James VIII and III: Jacobites.
Abstract 520    $a"The Royal Stuarts ruled for over 300 years in Scotland and for a century as the Royal Family of Britain and Ireland. They were leading actors in the foremost political dramas of British history - the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War and the Restoration - and remain the most controversial and divisive of royal families. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels and plays, Allan Massie tells the family's full story, from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England, and then eventual exile. A book which gets beyond the received generalisations, The Royal Stuarts takes us deep into the lives of figures like Mary Queen of Scots, Charles I and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries, the brave and capable, the weak and foolish."--Publisher's description.
Subj:Pers 600 30 $aStuart, House of.
Subj:Pers 600 30 $aStuart, House of$xIn literature.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aScotland$xHistory$yStuarts, to the Union, 1371-1707.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yStuarts, 1603-1714.