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Description for 20161215
Hardback. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 412 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 216 x 32. Weight in Grams: 672.
This work offers a new portrayal of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples as a woman of power with weaknesses and ambitions, and analyzes the Queen's actions, from her political choices to her alliance and betrayals. A careful examination of the period (1781-1785) covered by the diary shows that the daily life of the Queen and offers key evidence of her political acumen and her personal relationships. Recca cross-analyses unpublished personal documents, which include the integral diary and private correspondence. The book focuses on the political influence that Queen Maria Carolina wielded beside ... Read more
This work offers a new portrayal of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples as a woman of power with weaknesses and ambitions, and analyzes the Queen's actions, from her political choices to her alliance and betrayals. A careful examination of the period (1781-1785) covered by the diary shows that the daily life of the Queen and offers key evidence of her political acumen and her personal relationships. Recca cross-analyses unpublished personal documents, which include the integral diary and private correspondence. The book focuses on the political influence that Queen Maria Carolina wielded beside ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Diary of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, 1781-1785: New Evidence of Queenship at Court
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Queenship and Power
Condition
New
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319319865
SKU
V9783319319865
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Ref
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About Hardback
Cinzia Recca is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Catania, Italy, in the Department of Educational Science. She has published several papers in historical journals and volumes and is the Copy-editor of the Royal Studies Journal. She is currently researching the Hapsburg shadow in the Kingdom of Naples in the Mid-Eighteenth century, analyzing and focusing on the unpublished ... Read more
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