High Life, Low Morals
Subtitle: The Duel That Shook Stuart Society
Publisher: John Murray General Publishing Division; John Murray Publishers Ltd
Published: September 2, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780719557194
Subjects: Political structure & processes; Social history; United Kingdom, Great Britain; c 1700 to c 1800; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900
Description: In 1712, two prominent members of the aristocracy, Lord Mohun and the Duke of Hamilton, clashed in a duel that ended both their lives. Stuart society was in uproar, for the duel - the focus of this study of a cynical 18th-century British aristocracy - occurred at a moment of grave political crisis.