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1 online resource (x, 356 pages .) |
| Summary |
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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grenville, George, 1712-1770.
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| SUBJECT |
Grenville, George, 1712-1770 fast |
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Press and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Politics and government -- Public opinion
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Press and politics
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Public opinion
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1727-1760 -- Public opinion
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789 -- Public opinion
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527546370 |
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1527546373 |
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