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THE MEMOIRS AND SPEECHES OF JAMES, 2ND EARL WALDEGRAVE 1742-1763
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Earl James Waldegrave Waldegrave, J. C. D. Clark (Editor) |
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Paperback |

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£38.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521526892 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521526890 |
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
17 June, 2002 |
Pages: |
356 |
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A standard edition of a classic text, here compared with Waldegrave's speeches and other writings. |
Synopsis: |
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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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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