By Peter D. G. Thomas
ISBN-10: 0719064287
ISBN-13: 9780719064289
ISBN-10: 0719064295
ISBN-13: 9780719064296
ISBN-10: 1417590572
ISBN-13: 9781417590575
During this interesting e-book the writer discusses the political tale of the 1st decade of the reign of George III, some of the most debatable figures in sleek British background. George III has frequently been blamed for the lack of Britain’s American colonies in an try to repair royal strength. Peter D.G. Thomas confirms Namier’s findings that George III was once no longer looking to boost royal strength and throws gentle at the quantity to which a approach of occasion politics existed on the time. even if the constitution of British politics published by way of Namier offers the environment for this examine, the United States, India, and eire also are thought of the following as very important problems with the time.
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That pejorative designation was especially fixed on them by Whig ministers, to ensure that George I and George II excluded them from office, and there was some historical justification. Their championship of the privileged position of the Church of England, and resentment at Britain’s involvement in Europe, both had roots in Tory attitudes before 1714. But the seventeenth-century Tory party had also supported the Stuart monarchy, and Whig propaganda therefore sought to affix to Tories the stigmata of support of absolutism and also of Jacobitism, that movement to restore the exiled Stuarts to the throne.
146. For general surveys of the press at this time see Thomas, Thesis, pp. 8–31; Rea, The English Press in Politics; and Brewer, Party Ideology and Popular Politics, pp. 139–60. Gazetteer, 11 Feb. 1763, quoted in Brewer, Party Ideology and Popular Politics, p. 236. Grenville Papers, II, 239. Thomas, John Wilkes, pp. 83–4. This was established by Rudé, Wilkes and Liberty. The period from 1760 to 1775 is virtually by-passed by Rogers, Crowd, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain; and, apart from Wilkism, by Wilson, The Sense of the People.
They were published separately, not as part of a printed periodical, for they were expensive to produce. A print cost 6d, or 1s if coloured, as compared with 21⁄2d for a newspaper. A run would be about 500, until the soft copper plates wore out. Despite their price cartoons had a widespread impact, for, like newspapers, they were available for perusal in taverns and other places of public resort. Specialist print-shops were a feature of the London scene, some with portfolios for hire, while the poor could have a free look at window displays.
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