George III, national reform, and North America : "the true essential business of a king" /
Bullion, John L.,1944-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"To play what game she pleased without observation" : Princess Augusta and the political drama of succession, 1736-1756 -- The origins and significance of gossip about Princess Augusta and Lord Bute, 1755-1756 -- "George, be a king!" : the relationship between Princess Augusta and George III -- The prince's mentor : a new perspective on the friendship between George III and Lord Bute during the 1750s -- From "the French and Dutch are more sober, frugal and industrious" to the "nobler" position : attitudes of the Prince of Wales toward a general naturalization and a popular monarchy, 1757-1760 -- "To know this is the true essential business of a king" : the Prince of Wales and a new vision of empire? : attitudes of George III and lord the study of public finance, 1755-1760 -- Bute toward North America, 1757-1760 -- The monitor and the beer tax controversy : a study of constraints on London newspapers, 1760-1761 -- The vote of credit controversy, 1762 -- Peace or war, 1762 -- Securing the peace : Lord Bute, the plan for the army and the origins of the American Revolution -- "The ten thousand in America" : more light on the decision on the American army, 1762-1763 -- Security and economy : the Bute administration's plans for the American army and revenue, 1762-1763 -- "Truly loyal subjects" : British politicians and the failure to foresee American resistance to parliamentary taxation, 1762-1765 -- British ministers and American resistance to the Stamp Act, October-December 1765 -- Roads not taken : Lord North's plan for imperial reform, 1775-76 -- The ancien regime and the modernizing state : George III and the American revolution -- George III on empire, 1783 -- From an inhuman custom to false philanthropy : attitudes of George III toward slavery and the slave trade, 1756-1807 -- Appendix I: "The particular habits of his life" : some implications of the legal career of George Grenville -- Appendix II: Escaping Boston : Nathaniel Ware and the beginnings of colonial taxation, 1762-1763.
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
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