Oligarchy, dissent and the culture of print in Georgian Britain
Subtitle: essays, reviews, and documents
By: Karl W. Schweizer ; with a foreword by Ellis Wasson
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781495503467
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Printing; Dissenters; Oligarchy; Social change; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. Essays; title: William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire : aristocrat, politician and diarist; title: The Duke of Newcastle and the diplomatic revolution : a historical revision; title: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute : image and counter image in Hanoverian studies; title: William Pitt, Lord Bute and the resignation crisis, October 5, 1761 : a retrospective; title: English xenophobia and national identity in the 18th century : the case of Lord Bute; title: Jacobitism, British foreign policy and international relations : a synopsis; title: Jacobitism and the historian : neglected sources on the Jacobite insurrection of 1715 and 1745; title: William Cobbett and Sir Francis Burdett; title: Anglo-American War reporting, 1745-1763 : a research priority; title: Newspapers, politics and public opinion in the later Hanoverian era; title: Historiography; title: Part two. Review articles; title: William Pitt, Earl of Chatham : a return to the archives?; title: Imperial Britain at war; title: The Jacobite Army in England, 1745 : the final campaign; title: Contending ideologies : the 1715 insurrection; title: Part three. Reviews; title: C.D. Smith, The early career of Lord North, the prime minister; title: J.L. Bullion, A great and necessary measure : George Grenville and the genesis of the Stamp Act, 1763-1765; title: M.G. Pittock, Inventing and resisting Britain : cultural identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789; title: R. Wills, The Jacobites and Russia, 1715-1750; title: John Sainsbury, John Wilkes : the lives of a libertine; title: H.T. Dickinson, Britain and the American Revolution; title: J. Black, British foreign policy in an age of revolution, 1783-1793; title: J. Mori, William Pitt and the French Revolution; title: E. Reitan, Finance and the people : economical reform in the age of the American Revolution, 1770-1792; title: Supplements; title: Appendix I: Some additions to the Devonshire diary; title: Appendix II: Some additions to the Dodington diary; title: Appendix III: A lost letter of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, to George Grenville, October 13, 1761; title: Appendix IV: The Pulteney papers in the Henry E. Huntington Library.