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An Enlightenment statesman in Whig Britain : Lord Shelburne in context, 1737-1805 /
Lord Shelburne, Prime Minister in 1782-83, was a profoundly important politician, whose achievements included the negotiation of the peace with the newly-independent United States. This book constitutes a major and long overdue reappraisal of the politician considered by Disraeli to be the "mos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
The Boydell Press,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Nigel Aston and Clarissa Campbell Orr
- Petty and Fitzmaurice : Lord Shelburne and his brother / Nigel Aston
- Aunts, wives, courtiers : the ladies of Bowood / Clarissa Campbell Orr
- A Christian Whig : Lord Shelburne and the Latitudinarian tradition / G.M. Ditchfield
- Lord Shelburne, finance and Sir Frances Baring / John Orbell
- Shelburne : a Chathamite in opposition and in government 1760-82? / Frank O'Gorman
- Shelburne and Ireland : politician, patriot, absentee / Martyn J. Powell
- Lord Shelburne's ministry, 1782-3 : 'a very good list' / John Cannon
- Shelburne, the European powers, and the peace of 1783 / Andrew Stockley
- 'Opening the door to truth and liberty' : Bowood's French connection / Robin Eagles
- Lord Shelburne's constitutional views in 1782-3 / Edmond Dziembowski
- Jeremy Bentham at Bowood / Emmanuelle de Champs
- Shelburne and perpetual peace : small states, commerce, and international relations within the Bowood circle / Richard Whatmore.