1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136650703321

Autore

Foyster Elizabeth A. <1968->

Titolo

The trials of the King of Hampshire : madness, secrecy and betrayal in Georgian England / / Elizabeth Foyster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Oneworld, , 2016

ISBN

1-78074-961-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxiii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Disciplina

616.89009

Soggetti

Insanity (Law) - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Trials - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Nobility - Great Britain

Mentally ill - Great Britain

Mental illness - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Mentally ill - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Great Britain History 1800-1837

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-324) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The 3rd Earl of Portsmouth voted in the House of Lords, took county positions, invited Jane Austen to his balls, counted William Cobbett as one of his Hampshire neighbors and had Lord Byron as his best man at his second marriage. Then, at the age of fifty-five, his own family launched a case citing him as a danger not only to the peerage but to himself. Historian Elizabeth Foyster invites us into the jury box for the lengthiest, most expensive and vastly controversial lunacy commission ever heard, including accusations of abductions, sodomy, blackmail and domestic violence.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826083603321

Autore

Klein Herbert S.

Titolo

A concise history of Bolivia / / Herbert S. Klein [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-38673-X

1-107-22136-6

1-283-01735-0

9786613017352

1-139-00973-7

1-139-01025-5

1-139-00810-2

0-511-97696-8

1-139-00699-1

1-139-00920-6

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 360 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge concise histories

Classificazione

HIS037020

Disciplina

984

Soggetti

Bolivia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Geography and pre-Columbian civilization -- The creation of a colonial society -- Late colonial society : crisis and growth -- Revolution and the creation of a nation-state, 1809-1841 -- The crisis of the state, 1841-1880 -- The ages of silver and tin, 1880-1932 -- Disintegration of the established order, 1932-1952 -- From the national revolution to the cold war, 1952-1982 -- Creating a multiethnic democracy, 1982-2002 -- The emergence of a mestizo and indigenous elite, 2002-2010 -- Bibliographical essay -- Political chronology.

Sommario/riassunto

In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social, cultural and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present, this current version brings the history of this society up to the present day, covering the fundamental changes that have occurred



since the National Revolution of 1952 and the return of democracy in 1982. These changes have included the introduction of universal education and the rise of the mestizos and Indian populations to political power for the first time in national history. This second edition brings this story through the first administration of the first self-proclaimed Indian president in national history and the major changes that the government of Evo Morales has introduced in Bolivian society, politics and economics.