Research Catalog

Title

A prologue to revolution : the political career of George Grenville (1712-1770) / Allen S. Johnson.

Author

Johnson, Allen S.

Publication

Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 1997.

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Description

xi, 353 p. : ports.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Grenville, George, 1712-1770
• 1727-1789
• Prime ministers > Great Britain > Biography
• United States > Causes > Revolution, 1775-1783
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1727-1760
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1760-1789

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. I. The Formative Years: 1712-1741 -- Ch. II. Politics and Politicians, 1712-1770 -- Ch. III. The Boy Patriots: 1741-1744 -- Ch. IV. Grenville and Pitt, 1744-1755 -- Ch. V. Grenville and Bute, 1755-1762 -- Ch. VI. The Bute Ministry, 1762-1763 -- Ch. VII. Courts Legal and Royal, April-September, 1763 -- Ch. VIII. The Parliamentary War, 1763-1764 -- Ch. IX. The Sugar Act, 1763-1764 -- Ch. X. The Stamp Act, 1763-1765 -- Ch. XI. The Regency Bill, April-May, 1765 -- Ch. XII. The Downfall, May-July, 1765 -- Ch. XIII. The Valley of Indecision, July, 1765-January, 1766 -- Ch. XIV. Repeals, Reversals, and Revisions, 1766 -- Ch. XV. The Opposition to Chatham, 1766-1767 -- Ch. XVI. Elder Statesman, 1768-1770.

ISBN

0761806008 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96044589^

OCLC

• 35741415
• SCSB-10683632

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library