An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light In this bold debut work, historian James M

From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who fritter

"Originally published as The strangest family in the U.K. in 2014 by William Collins"--Title page verso.

The sixty-year reign of George III (1760–1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern world history: the ending of the Seven

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The eighteenth-century was long deemed 'the classical a