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The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 1742-1763
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The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 1742-1763 Hardcover - 1988

by J. C. Clark (Editor)


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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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  • Title The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 1742-1763
  • Author J. C. Clark (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date August 26, 1988
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521361118 / 0521361117
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.91 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 2.31 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Politicians - Great Britain - Biography, Great Britain - Court and courtiers -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88005014
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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