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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Named Person: | Frederick William, King of Prussia; Frederick William, King of Prussia |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David E Barclay |
ISBN: | 0198204302 9780198204305 |
OCLC Number: | 861983491 |
Description: | xiii, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
Other Titles: | Frederick William Fourth and the Prussian monarchy, 1840-1861 |
Responsibility: | David E. Barclay. |
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clearly written and splendidly researched ... Barclay tells the King's story well. His opening chapter on the Prussian monarchy in its European context is a model of comparative analysis, from which every student of nineteenth-century Europe can benefit. He adds useful details to the rich historiography of the revolution and increases our knowledge of the usually neglected era of reaction. * James J. Sheehan, Stanford University, EHR Nov. 97 * fine political biography of the monarch...an important contribution, not only to the revision of received opinion on a misunderstood monarch, but also to the history of German monarchy in a crucial and neglected period of transition. * TLS * Read more...

