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Eighteenth-Century British Premiers

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    Chapter 1 Introduction — The Road to the Prime Ministership
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    Chapter 2 Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford — ‘All These Men Have Their Price’
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    Chapter 3 Spencer Compton, First Earl of Wilmington — ‘George II’s Favourite Nonentity’
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    Chapter 4 Henry Pelham — Pragmatic Heir to Walpole
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    Chapter 5 Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle — Mighty Panjandrum, Feeble Premier
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    Chapter 6 William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire — ‘I Have No Motive but the King’s Service’
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    Chapter 7 John Stuart, Third Earl of Bute — the King’s ‘Dearest Friend’
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    Chapter 8 George Grenville — Able Premier, Undermined by His Own Prolixity
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    Chapter 9 Charles Watson-Wentworth, Second Marquess of Rockingham — the Conscience of the Whigs
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    Chapter 10 William Pitt, the Elder, First Earl of Chatham — ‘I am Sure That I Can Save This Country, and That Nobody Else Can’
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    Chapter 11 Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Third Duke of Grafton — Well-Intentioned Dilettante
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    Chapter 12 Frederick North, Styled Lord North — Outstanding Parliamentarian, Pity about the Colonies. …
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    Chapter 13 William Petty, Second Earl of Shelburne — Too Clever by Half
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    Chapter 14 William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Third Duke of Portland —Twice a Figurehead Premier
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    Chapter 15 William Pitt, the Younger — Peacetime Prodigy, Less Successful in War
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    Chapter 16 Epilogue
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Title
Eighteenth-Century British Premiers
Published by
Springer, December 2010
DOI 10.1057/9780230304635
ISBNs
978-0-230-30463-5, 978-0-230-28478-4
Authors

Dick Leonard, Leonard, Dick

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Unknown 2 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 50%
Researcher 1 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 50%
Social Sciences 1 50%