Pleasure and ambition : the life, loves and wars of Augustus the Strong, 1670-1707 /
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| Author / Creator: | Sharp, Tony. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2001. |
| Description: | 304 p. : port. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4486699 |
Table of Contents:
- Prince of Great Hopes
- Nothing Other than a Sword
- This Marriage Will Not End Well
- To Engage the Elector
- Carrying My Cloak on Both Shoulders
- So Many Extraordinary Changes
- Je Payeray la Folie Bien Cher
- A Restless Ambitious Spirit
- To the Ruin of that House
- So Much to Do
- Setting Up His Government upon the Hinges
- Upon Another Scent
- At Last got Out of Their Nests
- Able to do Nothing
- My Greatest Ambition is Glory
- Whoever Bids Most
- The Intestine Broils of the Kingdom
- The Chief Promoters of this Present War
- To Make War on Sweden
- But by Ruin of My Foes
- In a Lucky Minute
- A Long Train of Miseries
- Wholly at a Stand
- A Scission is Likely
- His Crown is not Worth any Longer Struggle
- His Coming into Saxony
- To Please the King of Sweden