Audiobook Various Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Geoponici" to "Germany"

This volume of the Encyclopædia Britannica, eleventh edition, covers a wide array of historical, biographical, and scientific topics, beginning with ancient agricultural writers and extending to the history and personalities of Germany. The first section explores the ancient Greek and Roman authors on husbandry and agriculture, tracing the transmission of agricultural knowledge from Xenophon, Mago, and Varro through to later compilers. Another major biographical and historical entry examines Saint George, the patron saint of England, Aragon, and Portugal, detailing his life, his martyrdom under Diocletian, and the growth of the legends connecting him with dragons and ancient hero myths. Several extensive historical articles chronicle the reigns and lineages of the first four Hanoverian kings of Great Britain and Ireland—George I, George II, George III, and George IV—and their family connexions with Prussia and Hanover. These biographical accounts examine the political struggles of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including the relations between the Crown and Parliament, the rise of the prime minister, the loss of the American colonies, the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and the growth of constitutional monarchy. Additional biographical and geographical entries trace other historical figures named George, such as George V of Great Britain, various sovereigns of Hanover, Greece, and Saxony, and early Christian leaders, alongside geographical descriptions of Lake George, the George Junior Republic, and Georgetown in British Guiana.