Marlborough

Resource Information

The work Marlborough represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Marlborough

Statement of responsibility

J.R. Jones

Creator

• Jones, J. R., (James Rees), 1925-

Subject

• Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography
• Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Biography
• Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722
• Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Generals -- Great Britain -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, was one of the two greatest military commanders in British history and the first subject to achieve and exercise a dominating influence in European affairs. With Wellington and Nelson he is the nearest that Britain has had to a national hero, yet today his reputation has faded. Few, apart from specialists in military history, have any appreciation of the extent of his achievements. This new study sets Marlborough's career in its contexts: the royal Court of the last Stuart monarchs, the desperate struggle against French attempts to establish hegemony in western Europe and the bitter political strife in Britain between the Whig and the Tory parties. It examines the opportunistic ways in which John Churchill rose from obscurity and poverty to wealth and greatness, his decisive role in the Revolution of 1688 and the circumstances and reasons for his dramatic fall.--

Member of

• British lives

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• British lives
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks