The Augustan Court

The Augustan Court
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 0804720800
ISBN-13 : 9780804720809
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Book Synopsis The Augustan Court by : R. O. Bucholz

Download or read book The Augustan Court written by R. O. Bucholz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staid respectability and ineffectualness. A special feature of the book is a collective biography of all 1,525 men, women, and children at the court of Queen Anne, the first such study of the personnel of any large institution of later Stuart government.


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