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Farmer George
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Was Britain's mad tyrant ever really mad - or a tyrant at all?
For more than two centuries, George III has lived in the shadow of someone else's story. In American memory he is the villain of a national drama: the unstable despot of the Declaration of Independence, the monarch whose cruelty forced the colonies into heroic revolt. It is a neat tale. It is also almost entirely untrue.
Farmer George strips away the patriotic varnish and restores the man behind the myth. Drawing on the realities of eighteenth-century politics rather than schoolbook legend, L. J. Morten portrays a king who rose early, worked late, read everything put in front of him and cared more about potato yields, budgets and Cabinet papers than about grandeur. Far from driving policy with iron will, George III spent the crisis years asking awkward questions of his ministers, restraining Parliament when it demanded harsher measures, and carrying a private load of grief and pressure that would eventually break him.
This short, sharp book follows:
The diligent, domestic life of Farmer George - husband, father, administrator.
The constitutional limits of the crown, and Parliament's real role in imperial policy.
The colonial elite whose economic grievances lit the fuse of revolution, and the ordinary colonists swept along behind them.
How a complex political dispute was later rewritten into a simple morality play with a convenient royal villain.
Clear, compact and quietly provocative, Farmer George invites readers of popular history to look again at Britain's most misunderstood king - not as a monster or a martyr, but as a human being.
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