The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 17421763 by J C D Clark

The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 17421763 by J C D Clark

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 I 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.

WILLIAM D. RUBENSTEIN has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth since 1995. His recent publications include Capitalism, Culture, and Decline in Britain, 1750-1990, A History of the Jews in the English-Speaking World: Great Britain and The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from The Nazis.

HILARY L. RUBENSTEIN holds a doctorate in history from the Australian National University and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. For several years Australian contributor to the American Jewish Year Book, she has written widely on Australian Jewry. Her publications include The Jews in Victoria: 1835-1985, Chosen: the Jews in Australia, and The Jews in Australia: a Thematic History, Volume One.

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ISBN 13	9780521526890
ISBN 10	0521526892
Title	The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 17421763
Author	J C D Clark
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2002-07-25
Number of pages	356
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