Author: George Thomas KeppelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781021272553
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham and His Contemporaries; Volume 1
Author: George Thomas KeppelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781021272553
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham and His Contemporaries;
Author: George Thomas KeppelPublisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781376435917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 1742-1763
Author: J. C. D. ClarkPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526890
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A standard edition of a classic text, here compared with Waldegrave's speeches and other writings.
John Wilkes
Author: John SainsburyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351924974
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
John Wilkes remains one of the most colourful and intriguing characters of eighteenth-century Britain. Born in 1725, the son of a prosperous London distiller, he was given the classical education of a gentleman, before entering politics as a Whig. Finding his party in opposition following the accession of George III in 1760 he took up his pen with sensational effect, and made a career out of excoriating the new administration and promoting the Whig interest. His charismatic style and vicious wit soon ensured that he became a figurehead for the radical cause, earning him many admirers and many enemies. Amongst the latter were the king, and the artist William Hogarth who famously depicted Wilkes as a grinning, squint-eyed, pug-nosed agent of misrule. Whilst Wilkes's political career has been much explored, particularly the period between 1763 and 1774, much less has been written about his remarkable private life. This biography provides a more comprehensive examination of Wilkes throughout his long life than has hitherto been available. Taking a thematic, rather than chronological approach it is divided into six main chapters covering family, ambition, sex, religion, class and money, which allows a much more rounded picture of Wilkes to emerge. In so doing it provides a fascinating insight, not only into one of the most intriguing characters of the Georgian period, but also into wider eighteenth-century British society and its shifting attitudes to morality, politics and gender.
The Townshend Moment
Author: Patrick GriffinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The captivating story of two British brothers whose attempts to reform an empire helped to incite rebellion and revolution in America and insurgency and reform in Ireland Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain’s mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences of their efforts. As British chancellor of the exchequer in 1767, Charles Townshend instituted fiscal policy that served as a catalyst for American rebellion against the Crown, while his brother George’s actions at the same moment as lord lieutenant of Ireland politicized the kingdom, leading to Irish legislative independence. This fascinating study is the first to consider as a linked history the influence of two all-but-forgotten brothers, both of whom rose to national prominence in the same year. Griffin vividly reconstructs the many worlds the Townshends moved through and explores how their shared conception of an empire that could harness the wealth of America to the manpower of Ireland initiated an age of revolution.
Catalogue
Author: Melbourne parl. librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Catalogue of the library of the State historical society of Wisconsin, by D.S. and I. Durrie
Author: Daniel Steele DurriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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