The Howe Dynasty - The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain's Wars for America - Hardcover

Flavell, Julie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1631490613 ISBN 13: 9781631490613

Verlag: Norton, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British Admiral Richard and General William Howe, in a London drawing room for half a dozen Games of Chess. As Julie Flavell reveals, the games concealed a matter of the utmost diplomatic urgency, a last-ditch attempt to forestall the outbreak of war.The Howe Dynasty

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Born in Massachusetts, Julie Flavell has pursued a lifelong interest in Anglo-American relationships as reflected in her first book, When London Was Capital of America. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Flavell lives in Britain.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

"If real power is to be 'in the room where it happened, ' then the Howe family had it all and more. . . . Julie Flavell not only brings the Howes to life, she makes us love them, scold them, forgive them, and ultimately root for every member to succeed. History is rarely such fun."
--Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

"William and Richard Howe were two of the most controversial British commanders during the American Revolution. . . . Until now, historians have been unable to recover their role in the story because their correspondence was destroyed in a nineteenth-century fire. Julie Flavell has come close to doing so by exploring the vast correspondence of their formidable sister, Caroline Howe. The result is a highly readable record from inside the Howe family of the political and military story, told from a woman's perspective."
--Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

"Innovatively combining attention to women's drawing-room culture with military history, Julie Flavell effectively defends the Howe brothers from critics, both their own contemporaries and modern historians. Scholars of the Revolution will find this book eye-opening."
--Mary Beth Norton, author of 1774: The Long Year of Revolution

"The Howe Dynasty offers new insights into the Howe brothers, the most inscrutable of the British commanders in the American Revolutionary War. . . . This is one of the best and most compelling accounts of the role and influence of women in eighteenth-century Britain."
--Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy, author of The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire

"Completely enthralling, wonderfully well written, and like Caroline Howe herself, wise and witty in equal measures, this story of extraordinary women and stoical, driven men is a triumph and, even more important, a delight."
--Trevor Burnard, Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Norton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1631490613
• ISBN 13: 9781631490613
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Norton & Company; makehurst@wwnorton.com; ; Wells 75-76; London; W1T 3QT; Vereinigtes Königreich
• Verantwortliche Person: Zeitfracht Medien GmbH; produktsicherheit@zeitfracht.de; ; Ferdinand-Jühlke-Straße 7; Erfurt; 99095; Deutschland