About this book
This short survey of the age of Queen Anne begins with the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the career of the Duke of Marlborough, leader of the allied armies against Louis XIV. Scotland joins England to form the United Kingdom. Peter the Great wrests control of the Gulf of Finland from Charles XII of Sweden and builds St. Petersburg. Despite the Jacobite threat, the Whigs secure the Protestant Succession and George I ascends the throne. Pope writes a mock epic in couplets, Addison's "Spectator" enlivens coffee houses and tea tables, and Defoe creates the immortal "Robinson Crusoe." (Pamela Nagami, M.D.)
Chapters (25)
1Ch. 1: The Spanish Succession
2Ch. 2: Lewis XIV 1714
3Ch. 3: The New Dramatis Personae
4Ch. 4: ‘The Grand Alliance’
5Ch. 5: Opening of the War
6Ch. 6: Rising in the Cevennes
7Ch. 7: Blenheim
8Ch. 8: Lord Peterborough
9Ch. 9: The Year of Victory—1706
10Ch. 10: The Year of Disaster—1707
11Ch. 11: Later Fighting in the Low Countries
12Ch. 12: Later Campaigns in Spain
13Ch. 13: The Fortunes of Parties
14Ch. 14: Fag-end of the War
15Ch. 15: Peace of Utrecht
16Ch. 16: The Union with Scotland
17Ch. 17: Peter the Great and Charles XII, Pt. 1
18Ch. 17: Peter the Great and Charles XII, Pt. 2
19Ch. 18: The Protestant Succession
20Ch. 19: End of Lewis XIV
21Ch. 20: The Fragments that Remain
22Ch. 21: Economic and Social, Pt. 1
23Ch. 21: Economic and Social, Pt. 2
24Ch. 22: Literature, Pt. 1
25Ch. 22: Literature, Pt. 2
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