The Honest Elector's Proposal, for Rendering the Votes of All Constituents Throughout the Kingdom Free and Independent. By C. W.

The Honest Elector's Proposal, for Rendering the Votes of All Constituents Throughout the Kingdom Free and Independent. By C. W. PDF Author: C. W.
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Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Monthly Review

Monthly Review PDF Author: George Edward Griffiths
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Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III

Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III PDF Author: John Brewer
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521287012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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This book is a reappraisal of English politics in the first decade of George III's reign. It sets out to explain how party politics changed, and what problems that created for the parliamentary elite. The issues of party, of patriotism as it manifested itself in the elder Pitt's political career, and of the relations between the notions of ministerial responsibility and the powers of the Crown are all used to illuminate the nature of political conflict. Special emphasis is placed on Burke's notions of party. The schisms created by this reconfiguration of party politics, Dr Brewer argues, had effects beyond Westminster. He discusses extra-parliamentary forms of political expression, notably the press, and goes on to show how the career of John Wilkes and the critique of British politics developed by American radicals gave focus to a variety of political discontents, and produced new arguments in favour of parliamentary reform. Throughout his study he emphasises the interplay between popular and parliamentary politics. His work is designed to show that the 'political nation' included many other than the parliamentary classes, and that the political conflicts of the period cannot be properly understood without a full examination of political ideology.

The Grenvillites and the British Press

The Grenvillites and the British Press PDF Author: Rory T. Cornish
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527546373
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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The administration of George Grenville, 1763-1765, continues to divide historians. The passage of his American Stamp Act was widely debated by his contemporaries, damned by nineteenth-century Whig historians, and criticized by many historians well into the twentieth-century. The Stamp Act proved to be a political blunder which helped precipitate the outbreak of the American Revolution, and it is this, together with Grenville’s own forbidding personality, which has coloured how he has been largely remembered. Indeed, as one of his more recent biographers has noted, Grenville’s political career has been mainly judged on the comments made by his contemporary political enemies. Grenville, however, came to the premiership after spending twenty years in office and was perceived by many as an efficient and energetic minister; a capable and conscientious man who got things done. This present study adds to the recent reappraisal of Grenville’s career by investigating how he and his followers interacted with, and attempted to influence, the activities of the increasing political press during the first decade of the reign of George III. The Grenvillite pamphleteers were both well-organized and effective in their defence of their political patron, and the press activities of Thomas Whately, William Knox, Augustus Hervey, and Charles Lloyd are fully investigated here within the larger context of the political debates from 1763 to 1770. The impact East Indian issues, Irish affairs, John Wilkes, and American colonial problems had on shaping British public opinion are also examined. The book concludes, with regard to the American colonies at least, that the Grenvillite vision of empire was essentially traditional and mainstream. Stubborn, peevish, and argumentative he may have been, but Grenville was hardly the scourge of the American colonies as previously portrayed; nor was he the lone author of all the trouble between Britain and her American colonies as some American historians have suggested. George Grenville will remain a controversial figure in eighteenth-century British political history, but this study offers an examination of his political activities from a different perspective, and thus helps broaden our estimation of a minister who has been considered for too long as one of the worst prime ministers during the long reign of George III.

General Catalogue of Printed Books

General Catalogue of Printed Books PDF Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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General catalogue of printed books

General catalogue of printed books PDF Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature. By Robert Watt, M.D. in Two Parts: - Authors and Subjects

Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature. By Robert Watt, M.D. in Two Parts: - Authors and Subjects PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Bibliotheca Britannica; Or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature

Bibliotheca Britannica; Or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature PDF Author: Robert Watt
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 774

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Bibliotheca Britannica: Subjects

Bibliotheca Britannica: Subjects PDF Author: Robert Watt
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Bibliotheca Britannica

Bibliotheca Britannica PDF Author: Robert Watt
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Languages : en
Pages : 778

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