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  • Eighteenth-century British Premiers[electronic resource] :Walpole to the Younger Pitt /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 941.070922
    書名/作者: Eighteenth-century British Premiers : Walpole to the Younger Pitt // Dick Leonard.
    作者: Leonard, R. L.
    出版者: Basingstoke : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (vii, 256 p.) : : port.
    標題: Prime ministers - Biography. - Great Britain
    標題: HISTORY.
    標題: Great Britain - Fiction.
    ISBN: 9780230304635 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 023030463X (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford : "All these men have their price" -- Spencer Compton, first Earl of Wilmington, "George II's favourite nonentity" -- Henry Pelham : pragmatic heir to Walpole -- Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle : mighty panjandrum, feeble premier -- William Cavendish, fourth Duke of Devonshire : "I have no motive but the king's service" -- John Stuart, third Earl of Bute : the king's "dearest friend" -- George Grenville : able premier, undetermined by his own prolixity -- Charles Watson-Wentworth, second Marquess of Rockingham : the conscience of the Whigs -- William Pitt, the Elder, first Earl of Chatham : "I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can" -- Augustus Henry Fitzroy, third Duke of Grafton : well-intentioned dilettante -- Frederick North, styled Lord North : outstanding parliamentarian, pity about the colonies ... -- William Petty, second Earl of Shelburne : too clever by half? -- William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, third Duke of Portland : twice a figurehead premier -- William Pitt, the Younger : peacetime prodigy, less successful in war.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230304635
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