The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 1742-1763

Sampul Depan
J. C. D. Clark
Cambridge University Press, 25 Jul 2002 - 356 halaman
The Memoirs of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1715-63) rank with those of Horace Walpole and Lord Hervey as classics of eighteenth-century political literature. They have an additional significance as a record of the momentous political crisis of 1754-7, which heralded the break-up of the early Hanoverian party system and laid the foundations for the pattern of alignments of the last half of the century. Waldegrave's Memoirs, first published in 1821, played a major part in the development of the Whig interpretation of the English past by apparently providing evidence in support of the Holland House thesis of a new royal absolutism, devised at Leicester House in the 1750s and implemented on the accession of George III in 1760. In an important introduction, Dr Clark unravels the nineteenth-century historiographical misconceptions of this problem and shows how Waldegrave's text was misused for polemical Whig purposes.
 

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The Family Background
21
The Publication of the Memoirs
101
The Text of the Memoirs
134
Memoirs of the Seven Years War
212
An Allegory of Leicester House
226
Speeches in the House of Lords 17421763
242
Notes from Plutarch
315
Notes from Montaigne
316
Notes on Constitutional Law
323
Notes on English History
329
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