The Whig ascendancy
Subtitle: colloquies on Hanoverian England
By: edited by John Cannon.
Contributors: Cannon, John Ashton.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Hanover, House of.; Whig Party (Great Britain) -- History -- 18th century.; Tory Party (Great Britain) -- History -- 18th century.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The achievement of stability / by Geoffrey Holmes; value: Whiggism in the eighteenth century / by H.T. Dickinson; value: Whigs and Tories dim their glories / by William Speck; value: Party in the later eighteenth century / by Frank O'Gorman; value: New lamps for old / by John Cannon; value: Governing temperament under Pitt and Liverpool / by John Derry; value: Economic and social developments between 1780 and 1830 / by Norman McCord; value: Final discussion / by John Cannon.