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George V de Jane Ridley

George V

Autor Jane Ridley
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 ian 2022

Aplicabilitatea practică a acestui volum rezidă în analiza modului în care o instituție tradițională poate supraviețui unor schimbări geopolitice radicale prin adaptare și reinventare. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Jane Ridley demontează imaginea limitată a lui George V — perceput adesea doar ca un pasionat de vânătoare și filatelie — pentru a dezvălui un strateg care a ghidat coroana britanică prin crize constituționale, ascensiunea bolșevismului și ororile Primului Război Mondial. Suntem de părere că această biografie oferă o perspectivă esențială asupra modului în care George V a fondat, practic, monarhia modernă, asigurându-i stabilitatea într-un moment în care imperiile vecine se prăbușeau.

Textul acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum The Windsor Dynasty 1910 to the Present de Matthew Glencross, dar cu o abordare mult mai intimă și biografică, concentrându-se pe parteneriatul epic dintre rege și Regina Mary, mai degrabă decât pe o analiză pur academică a dinastiei. Ritmul narativ este susținut de detalii inedite extrase din arhive, oferind o claritate remarcabilă asupra deciziilor controversate, precum refuzul de a acorda azil țarului Nicolae al II-lea.

În contextul operei autoarei, George V reprezintă o continuare firească a cercetărilor sale despre dinastia Windsor, completând tabloul început în Bertie: A Life of Edward VII. Dacă în lucrarea anterioară Ridley explora personalitatea exuberantă a lui Edward VII, aici ea analizează contrastul izbitor oferit de fiul său, a cărui rigoare a salvat instituția, dar a și semănat semințele conflictului cu viitorul Eduard VIII. Este un studiu despre datorie, familie și supraviețuire politică într-un secol al extremelor.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062567499
ISBN-10: 0062567497
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 162 x 232 x 48 mm
Greutate: 0.76 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie politică și biografii regale. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care monarhia britanică a supraviețuit secolului XX, transformându-se dintr-o relicvă victoriană într-o instituție modernă. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege rădăcinile stabilității Casei de Windsor și conflictele interne care au dus la criza abdicării din 1936.

Despre autor

Jane Ridley este o distinsă istorică, profesoară la Universitatea din Buckingham și strănepoata arhitectului Edwin Lutyens. Specializată în istoria monarhiei britanice și a epocii victoriene, Ridley este recunoscută pentru biografiile sale riguros documentate, printre care se numără și premiata lucrare despre Edward VII. Experiența sa în cercetarea arhivelor regale îi permite să aducă la lumină detalii de finețe despre personalitățile care au modelat Marea Britanie modernă, transformând datele istorice în narațiuni captivante și accesibile publicului larg.

Descriere scurtă

From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was an epic partnership
The grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, King George V reigned over the British Empire from 1910 to 1936, a period of unprecedented international turbulence. Yet no one could deny that as a young man, George seemed uninspired. As his biographer Harold Nicolson famously put it, "he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.” The contrast between him and his flamboyant, hedonistic, playboy father Edward VII could hardly have been greater.
However, though it lasted only a quarter-century, George’s reign was immensely consequential. He faced a constitutional crisis, the First World War, the fall of thirteen European monarchies and the rise of Bolshevism. The suffragette Emily Davison threw herself under his horse at the Derby, he refused asylum to his cousin the Tsar Nicholas II during the Russian Revolution, and he facilitated the first Labour government. And, as Jane Ridley shows, the modern British monarchy would not exist without George; he reinvented the institution, allowing it to survive and thrive when its very existence seemed doomed. The status of the British monarchy today, she argues, is due in large part to him.
How this supposedly limited man managed to steer the crown through so many perils and adapt an essentially Victorian institution to the twentieth century is a great story in itself. But this book is also a riveting portrait of a royal marriage and family life. Queen Mary played a pivotal role in the reign as well as being an important figure in her own right. Under the couple's stewardship, the crown emerged stronger than ever. George V founded the modern monarchy, and yet his disastrous quarrel with his eldest son, the Duke of Windsor, culminated in the existential crisis of the Abdication only months after his death.
Jane Ridley has had unprecedented access to the archives, and for the first time is able to reassess in full the many myths associated with this crucial and dramatic time. She brings us a royal family and world not long vanished, and not so far from our own.

Recenzii

“A richly detailed and diverting new assessment of [George’s] life and reign.” — Washington Post
“Splendid….[Ridley’s] third outstanding royal biography… she’s untrammeled by any restraints… richly entertaining.”  — New York Review of Books
"Superb . . . a perfectly candid portrait of our present Queen's grandfather: demythologised, certainly, and with spades called spades, but not trivialised, and not denied full credit for the massive amount he achieved . . . Ridley's convincing thesis [is] that George V was the true begetter of modern constitutional monarchy . . . this book makes it clear we were lucky to have him." — Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
"A 21st-century [biography] was overdue . . . and nobody could do it better than the immensely experienced Jane Ridley . . . The Windsors have always been emotionally handicapped, and in this respect George V was their prize exhibit." — Max Hastings, Sunday Times
“Succeeds, against all the odds, in being superbly un-dull. . . . Ridley has a wonderful ability to push the story along, luring us with salient details, even making one ‘fairy-tale of stamp-collecting’ riveting. Her account of the King’s death, secretly brought on late on the evening of January 20, 1936, by his doctor, Dawson, with a large dose of morphia and cocaine, so that it would appear in the next morning’s Times rather than the evening paper, is chilling. Never a dull paragraph.” — Air Mail
"A magnificent new life -- wonderfully funny, from its winning subtitle onwards, and full of human sympathy and understanding . . . an evocative and touching portrait of a surprisingly impressive man." — Philip Hensher, Spectator
"The best royal biography since James Pope-Hennessy's Queen Mary (1959) . . . rivetingly interesting . . . sheds an entirely new light on both George V and his consort . . . Jane Ridley persuades us that their tactful handling of the many crises of the reign paved the way for the stable constitutional monarchy that persists to this day." — A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
"Most biographers would shy away from the notoriously dull George V. Not so Ridley, whose biography of the stamp-collecting, bird-shooting king is top-notch." — Robbie Millen, The Times, *Books of the Year*
"Superb." — Iona McLaren, Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year*
"Jane Ridley's George V is so sparklingly incisive about both the king and Queen Mary that it almost counts as a double biography. The pheasant-shooting, stamp-collecting, moderating monarch and his bejewelled, shopaholic consort are beautifully portrayed in all their complexities." — Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Spectator, *Books of the Year*
"Sparkling." — Tony Rennell, Daily Mail Biographies of the Year

Notă biografică

Jane Ridley is a professor of history at the University of Buckingham, where she teaches an MA course on biography. Her books include The Young Disraeli, 1804?1846, acclaimed by Robert Blake as definitive; The Architect and His Wife, a highly praised study of the architect Edwin Lutyens and his relationship with his troubled wife, which won the Duff Cooper Prize; and Victoria, written for the Penguin Monarchs series. Her most recent full biography, The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince (published in the UK as Bertie: A Life of Edward VII), was a Sunday Times bestseller and one of the most critically acclaimed books of 2013. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Ridley writes book reviews for the Spectator and other newspapers, and has also been featured on radio and appeared on several television documentaries. She lives in London and Scotland.