Download or read book Britain in the Age of Walpole written by Jeremy Black and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Walpole and the Nature of Politics in Early Eighteenth century Britain written by Jeremy Black and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walpole in Power written by Jeremy Black and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid account of the leader who shaped 18th century English politics and culture focuses on his 20 years in office.
Download or read book British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole written by Daniel A. Baugh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical analysis of the problems faced by the British navy during the War of 1739-1748 also sheds light on the character, limitations, and potentialities of eighteenth-century British administration. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book British Foreign Policy in the Age of Walpole written by Jeremy Black and published by Edinburgh : J. Donald ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ, USA : Exclusive distribution in the U.S.A. and Canada by Humanities Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides an analysis of the major questions surrounding the debate, formulation and execution of foreign policy in the age of Walpole. It is a subject which has tended to be ignored by historians, yet it was central to the political activity of the period. as well as to historians of Parliament, Jacobitism, trade and the press. Drawing on a range of primary source material, Jeremy Black explores the substance and direction of policy, and the inevitable political wrangles. This text should be of interest to students of foreign policy, but also to historians of Parliament, Jacobitism, trade, and the press.
Download or read book Eighteenth Century British Premiers written by D. Leonard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his earlier surveys of 19th and 20th Century British Prime Ministers, Dick Leonard turns his attention to their 18th Century predecessors, including such major figures as Robert Walpole, the Elder Pitt (Lord Chatham), Lord North and the Younger Pitt.
Download or read book Eighteenth Century British Premiers written by Richard Lawrence Leonard and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author surveys such major figures as Robert Walpole, the Elder Pitt (Lord Chatham), Lord North and the Younger Pitt. In a series of 14 biographical essays, he recounts the principal events of their political careers, the circumstances which brought them to the top of 'the greasy pole,' assesses their performance as Prime Ministers, and asks what lasting influence they have had.
Download or read book Robert Walpole written by G. R. Stirling Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Politics and Society from Walpole to Pitt 1742 1789 written by Jeremy Black and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Britain in the First Age of Party 1687 1750 written by Clyve Jones and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1986-07-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 70 years of late Stuart and early Hanoverian Britain following 1680 were a crucial period in British politics and society, seeing the growth both of political parties and of stability. This collection of original essays provides a coherent account of Britain in the 'First Age of Party'.
Download or read book The Great Man written by Edward Pearce and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1721 has many splendours: great houses built by William Kent, fine pictures and the fruits of commerce. But there are also thirteen public hanging days a year, drunkenness is endemic, organised crime rampages through the streets. And politics are ferocious. Only a generation earlier, The Pretender failed to take the Crown; the new King is cursed as a damned foreigner; James's followers - the Jacobites - conspire and are persecuted; the South Sea Bubble collapses.Robert Walpole, once imprisoned for financial chicanery, assumes political control and becomes 'Prime Minister'. He personally detects a Jacobite plot, is dismissed in 1727 on the death of George I, recruits the new King's clever wife, Caroline, and bounces cheerfully back. Coarse, corrupt and cynical, Walpole dominates King, Parliament and Government until 1742. This is Mr Worldywiseman, keeping England out of war for twenty years and setting up a stable and growing economy. All politics of a kind we can recognise today begin with Robert Walpole. And here, in Edward Pearce's elegant book, he is brought vividly back to life.
Download or read book Eighteenth Century Britain A Very Short Introduction written by Paul Langford and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-08-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.
Download or read book Walpole written by John Morley and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Walpole dominated early eighteenth century politics to such an extent that he is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. Born in 1676 as one of nineteen children, Walpole entered politics at the height of the rivalry between Whigs and Tories. The Tories gained a landslide victory in 1710 and Walpole served in many high-profile posts such as Secretary for War and Chancellor of the Exchequer. After a brief stay in the Tower of London, he was crucial in ending the schism of the Whig party and reconciling the king with his son. The reign of Queen Anne turned into that of George, the first of the Hanoverians, and then George II. Walpole gained the friendship of Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George II, which Morley's excellent work documents at length. The question of the age was whether British government should be monarchical or parliamentary. Walpole, indeed, was the first minister who made the House of Commons the centre of authority of British government, transferring it from the royal court and doing much to build the foundations of today's cabinet system of government. Walpole's decisions were pivotal to the affairs of the age, dealing with the fallout of the South Sea Bubble and the feuds with Ireland and men of repute such as Bolingbroke. He also passed several elements of trade legislation and encouraged commerce in the British colonies. However, he also met opposition from improving the excise system and for engaging in the Spanish War. For this and other reasons, Walpole did have his critics. Samuel Johnson called him 'a minister given by the king to the people'. Walpole, however, was steadfast with those who denounced him, one of the many positive qualities Morley ascribes to him, and he refutes as many of the detractions history lays with him as he concurs with. Of all the men of the age, Walpole was 'the least unscrupulous, the most straightforward, bold, and open, and the least addicted to scheming and cabal', a fitting tribute to a great statesman. John Morley (1838-1923) was a statesman, writer and newspaper editor. He held a variety of cabinet positions in his political career including Secretary of State for India. He wrote biographies of Voltaire, Burke and Walpole, as well as a three-volume work on William Gladstone.
Download or read book The Letters of Horace Walpole written by Horace Walpole and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Letters of Horace Walpole by Horace Walpole
Download or read book The Men Who Lost America written by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Download or read book Walpole written by John Morley and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bolingbroke and His Circle written by Isaac Kramnick and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Behind this study lie two questions. Why is Bolingbroke, known primarily as a rationalist philosopher of the Enlightenment, so worshipped by English conservatives who are themselves, since Burke, so set against what the Enlightenment represents in political, social, and religious thought? The second question relates to Bolingbroke's public life. How does one explain the intense animosity between Bolingbroke and Walpole which provides the energy for English political life between 1725 and 1740? Is it mere vindictiveness, ambition, jealousy, or the inevitable reflex of the 'outsider' against the 'insider'? Or is it, as the late Victorian writers thought, their falling out at Eton which forever fated them to be protagonists?"—from the Preface.
