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1 online resource (x, 356 pages .) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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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Grenville, George, 1712-1770.
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Grenville, George, 1712-1770. |
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Press and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Press and politics. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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18th century |
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Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Public opinion. |
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1727-1760 -- Public opinion.
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Politics and government. |
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1727-1760 |
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789 -- Public opinion.
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1760-1789 |
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Politics and government -- Public opinion. |
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1700-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cornish, Rory T. Grenvillites and the British Press. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2020 152754186X 9781527541863 (OCoLC)1126001850 |
| ISBN |
9781527546370 (electronic book) |
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1527546373 (electronic book) |
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152754186X |
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9781527541863 |
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