Sir Robert Walpole: Sole and prime minister - Hardcover

Hill, Brian W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241127386 ISBN 13: 9780241127384

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1989

Synopsis

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, A fine copy in deep burgundy cloth boards, gold gilt title on spine with a very good dustjacket. Sir Robert Walpole: 'Sole and Prime Minister'. xv, 234 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.. . Includes index. Bibliography: p. 221-226.. .

About this title

From Library Journal:

Walpole's ministry (1721-42) was the longest and arguably the most powerful in modern British history. Hill is the author of The Growth of Parliamentary Parties 1689-1742 (LJ 3/15/77) and British Parliamentary Parties, 1742-1832 (Allen & Unwin, 1985). Here he offers his reassessment of Walpole's political career, stressing the importance of political parties and examining the validity of Walpole's traditional label of "first Prime Minister." This political biography will by no means replace J.H. Plumb's incomplete Sir Robert Walpole (2 vols.; LJ 5/15/61)), which is much broader but ends at 1734. But it is an important complement, based on recent scholarship and covering Walpole's entire career. For all collections on 18th-century British politics.
-Nancy C. Cridland, Indiana Univ. Libs., Bloomington
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0241127386
• ISBN 13: 9780241127384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 234