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)
1 Ch. 1: The Spanish Succession
2 Ch. 2: Lewis XIV 1714
3 Ch. 3: The New Dramatis Personae
4 Ch. 4: ‘The Grand Alliance’
5 Ch. 5: Opening of the War
6 Ch. 6: Rising in the Cevennes
7 Ch. 7: Blenheim
8 Ch. 8: Lord Peterborough
9 Ch. 9: The Year of Victory—1706
10 Ch. 10: The Year of Disaster—1707
11 Ch. 11: Later Fighting in the Low Countries
12 Ch. 12: Later Campaigns in Spain
13 Ch. 13: The Fortunes of Parties
14 Ch. 14: Fag-end of the War
15 Ch. 15: Peace of Utrecht
16 Ch. 16: The Union with Scotland
17 Ch. 17: Peter the Great and Charles XII, Pt. 1
18 Ch. 17: Peter the Great and Charles XII, Pt. 2
19 Ch. 18: The Protestant Succession
20 Ch. 19: End of Lewis XIV
21 Ch. 20: The Fragments that Remain
22 Ch. 21: Economic and Social, Pt. 1
23 Ch. 21: Economic and Social, Pt. 2
24 Ch. 22: Literature, Pt. 1
25 Ch. 22: Literature, Pt. 2
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