An engaging history of royal and imperial families and dynastic power, enriched by a body of surprising and memorable source material.

The family, of English origin, first settled in the Connecticut valley in 1636.

This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolis

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant mark