Pleasure and ambition
Titel: | Pleasure and ambition : the life, loves and wars of Augustus the Strong, 1670-1707 / Tony Sharp |
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Veröffentlicht: | London : Tauris, 2001 |
Umfang: | XVI,304 S. |
Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISBN: | 9781860646195 ; 1860646190 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- 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