Yellow boards with illust,unclipped jacket; Book is fine clean sound & unmarked; Jacket has very light edgewear but no chips/tears; 669 pages with index, 2 sections of b/w & colour plates and photos; A look at not only the assassination attempts made on Queen Victoria but also the response of the judical system and the changes Victoria made to present a more public savvy Monarchy that forced it into the 'open'. Heavier size book.

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T�tulo

SHOOTING VICTORIA, Madness, Mayhem and the Modernisation of the Monarchy

Editor

Head of Zeus, London

Fecha de publicaci�n

2012

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

1781851271

ISBN 13

9781781851272

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

First.

Estado

Fine

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Fine

Cat�logos de vendedores

Royalty (British/European)

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Sinopsis

During her long reign, Queen Victoria was the target of no fewer than eight assassination attempts. In seven of these cases her life was saved by poor marksmanship or misfiring weaponry, but one assailant managed to strike her with a finely wrought cane. Remarkably, all eight of her attackers lived to tell their tales, and were variously incarcerated in asylums, deported to Australia, or in a few cases eventually released into society again.

Paul Thomas Murphy shows how these obscure would-be assassins effected a change in history. Their attacks on Victoria galvanised her to face them down by presenting a more public face than her forebears, thereby laying the groundwork for the monarchy as we know it today.

SHOOTING VICTORIA opens up a new window onto Victorian England. In exploring contemporary attitudes to madness, crime and criminality, it reveals a wealth of little-known and often surprising aspects of 19th-century British society and monarchy.

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Paul Thomas Murphy is the author of the much-praised Shooting Victoria. He earned PhD from the University of Colorado where he taught interdisciplinary writing on Victorian topics. He currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.

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