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Author: Alexander Charles Ewald
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Author: Alexander Charles Ewald
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Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Author: Edward Pearce
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ISBN: 9781446420348
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Languages : en
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Author: Edward Pearce
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1844134059
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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"The year 1721 has many splendors, but there are also 13 public hanging days a year, drunkenness is endemic, and organized crime rampages through the streets. Only a generation earlier James II, suspected of conspiring to enforce Roman Catholicism and subordinate England to France, was driven out by the Whigs. In 1715 his son, the Pretender, failed to take the Crown by armed force. The new King, George I, an intelligent, moderate man, is cursed everywhere as a damned foreigner. James's followers, the Jacobites, conspire and are persecuted. In 1720, the South Sea Bubble, an attempt to finance state debt by runaway speculation, collapses. Ruined people mass in Westminster. The South Sea directors, says an MP, should be thrown into the sea. The Pretender could take over any day. Robert Walpole, once imprisoned for financial chicanery, assumes political control. When the rage subsides he becomes chief minister--or, a new title, "Prime Minister." He personally detects a Jacobite plot. Digging in, he buys parliamentary seats wholesale with secret service money. In a runaway theatrical success, "The Beggar's Opera", Walpole is compared with the criminal mastermind Jonathan Wild. But he will dominate King, Parliament, and Government until 1742. Dismissed in 1727 on the death of George I, he recruits the new King's clever wife, Caroline, and bounces cheerfully back. Coarse, corrupt, and cynical, Walpole sits on the Treasury Bench munching little Norfolk apples sent from the estate he is enlarging with political profit. This is Mr. Worldlywiseman, keeping England out of war for 20 years and setting up a stable and growing economy. All politics of a kind we can recognize begin with Robert Walpole. And here, in Edward Pearce's elegant book, he is brought vividly back to life."--Publisher description.
Author: Betty Kemp
Publisher: London : Weidenfeld and Nicholson
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Author: Brian W. Hill
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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"Sir Robert Walpole's ministry (1721-1742) was the longest since the Revolution of 1688. Though he is often called 'the first Prime Minister' Walpole was, Brian Hill suggests, both less and more than his modern counterparts. Less because the term itself was not generally accepted, least of all by Walpole himself, more because he was in practice more powerful than most of his successors"--Jacket, p. [2].
Author: William Coxe
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Author: William Coxe
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Category : Prime ministers
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Author: William Coxe
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Author: Edward Young
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: George Bubb Dodington (Baron of Melcombe Regis)
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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