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100 GREAT KINGS, QUEENS AND RULERS OF THE WORLD
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Category:
Anthology
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Number of pages:
672
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Book Size:
8.5"x5.5"
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Book Weight (Hardbound):
0 gm
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Book Weight (Paperback):
688 gm
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Published in:
07/01/1988
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Available in:
Hardbound & Paperbound
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ISBN_PB:
8171675220
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The benefits of a good monarch are almost invaluable, but the evils of a bad monarch are almost irreparable' wrote Walter Bagehot in his classic study of the English Constitution.
This volume presents a personal selection of great kings and queens, the word 'great' implying no moral judgment but used as a simple descriptive label for those whose significance for good or bad has been considerable. Most of them exercised absolute or near-absolute power, for the emergence of the constitutional monarch is a comparatively recent phenomenon. Also included are rulers who seemed to partake wholly or to a large extent in the royal mystique. Thus there is a certain resemblance between, say, Pericles, on the one hand, and Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy on the other.
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