George III, National Reform, and North America
Subtitle: "The True Essential Business of a King"
By: John L. Bullion ; with a preface by Karl W. Schweizer
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780773440791
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Politics and government; Colonies; Monarchy; Administration; Causes; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-561) and index.
Table of contents: title: "To play what game she pleased without observation" : Princess Augusta and the political drama of succession, 1736-1756; title: The origins and significance of gossip about Princess Augusta and Lord Bute, 1755-1756; title: "George, be a king!" : the relationship between Princess Augusta and George III; title: The prince's mentor : a new perspective on the friendship between George III and Lord Bute during the 1750s; title: 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; title: "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; title: Bute toward North America, 1757-1760; title: The monitor and the beer tax controversy : a study of constraints on London newspapers, 1760-1761; title: The vote of credit controversy, 1762; title: Peace or war, 1762; title: Securing the peace : Lord Bute, the plan for the army and the origins of the American Revolution; title: "The ten thousand in America" : more light on the decision on the American army, 1762-1763; title: Security and economy : the Bute administration's plans for the American army and revenue, 1762-1763; title: "Truly loyal subjects" : British politicians and the failure to foresee American resistance to parliamentary taxation, 1762-1765; title: British ministers and American resistance to the Stamp Act, October-December 1765; title: Roads not taken : Lord North's plan for imperial reform, 1775-76; title: The ancien regime and the modernizing state : George III and the American revolution; title: George III on empire, 1783; title: From an inhuman custom to false philanthropy : attitudes of George III toward slavery and the slave trade, 1756-1807; title: Appendix I: "The particular habits of his life" : some implications of the legal career of George Grenville; title: Appendix II: Escaping Boston : Nathaniel Ware and the beginnings of colonial taxation, 1762-1763.