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The Grenvillites and the British Press : Colonial and British Politics, 1750-1770 /
The administration of George Grenville, 1763-1765, continues to divide historians. The passage of his American Stamp Act was widely debated by his contemporaries, damned by nineteenth-century Whig historians, and criticized by many historians well into the twentieth-century. The Stamp Act proved to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publisher,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The administration of George Grenville, 1763-1765, continues to divide historians. The passage of his American Stamp Act was widely debated by his contemporaries, damned by nineteenth-century Whig historians, and criticized by many historians well into the twentieth-century. The Stamp Act proved to be a political blunder which helped precipitate the outbreak of the American Revolution, and it is this, together with Grenville's own forbidding personality, which has coloured how he has been largely remembered. Indeed, as one of his more recent biographers has noted, Grenville's political career. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 356 pages .) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781527546370 1527546373 |