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George III : king and politicians, 1760-1770 / Peter D.G. Thomas
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; |
| Year | 2002 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) |
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| Contents | Preface; 1 The parameters of politics; 2 The political scenario in 1760; 3 Pitt and Newcastle (1760-1762): war and peace; 4 The Bute ministry (1762-1763): peace and cider; 5 The Grenville ministry (1763-1765): Wilkes and America; 6 The first Rockingham ministry (1765-1766): the Stamp Act Crisis; 7 The Chatham ministry I. The year of Charles Townshend (1766-1767): India and America; 8 The Chatham ministry II. Grafton as caretaker (1767-1768): political re-alignments; 9 The Grafton ministry (1768-1770): the Middlesex Election and the Townshend Duties Crisis |
| Notes | George III was a high-profile and well-known character in British history whose policies have often been blamed for the loss of Britain's American colonies, around whom rages a perennial dispute over his aims: was he seeking to restore royal power or merely exercising his constitutional rights? This work is licensed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) Open Access English Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-254) and index Print version record |
| Authors | *Thomas, P. D. G. 1930- |
| Subjects | LCSH:George 1738-1820 FREE:George 1738-1820 FREE:Humaniora FREE:Humanities FREE:History FREE:Regional and national history FREE:European history BISACSH:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical All Subject Search BISACSH:HISTORY BISACSH:HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain All Subject Search FREE:Kings and rulers FREE:Great Britain FREE:Regions & Countries - Europe FREE:History & Archaeology LCSH:Great Britain -- George III, 1760-1820. -- History All Subject Search LCSH:Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Biography All Subject Search FREE:Great Britain LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books FREE:History FREE:Biographies FREE:1760-1820 |
| Classification | DC22:941.07/3/092 |
| ID | ED00003223 |
| ISBN | 1417590572 |
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