The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2: Earl of Chatham

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Taylor & Francis, 1966 - 432 páginas

This impressive study of the life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was first published in 1913 when it achieved instant recognition as a brilliant appraisal of Pitt's career. It is a book with many outstanding merits to commend it to students of eighteenth century English history.

Based on thorough and extensive researches, it traces Pitt's career from his election as a Member of Parliament for Old Sarum in 1735 and gives a well balanced account of his part in home and foriegn politics and colonial affairs during the next 30 years. The book contains many good maps and an excellent index, and a very valuable appendix gives a list of all Pitt's extant speeches, with references to where reports of them may be found.

These two substantial volumes are invaluable as a portrait of one of the most outstanding historical figures of the eighteenth century.

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CHAPTER PAGES
1
CAUSES OF PITTS DECLINE 3557
35
THE NEW REIGN 17601761 5873
58
PITTS PEACE NEGOTIATIONS 74102
74
PITTS DOWNFALL 1761 103125
103
PITT AND THE PEACE Of Paris 17621763 126149
126
CHATHAMS MINISTRY 17661768
212
CHATHAMS FAILURE
219
CHARLES TOWNSHENDS TRIUMPH
229
THE TRAGIC CLOSE
240
THE GREAT COMMONER IN THE LORDS 1769
248
AUTUMN DAYS 17721775
288
THE LAST STAGE 17751778
314
A LIST OF SPEECHES DELIVERED BY WILLIAM PITT
335
B BIBLIOGRAPHY
352
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