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GEORGE III AND THE HISTORIANS

Written by Herbert Butterfield
Published by Collins in 1957

£ 10.00 Photo of GEORGE III AND THE HISTORIANS- Stock Number: 1831207

GEORGE III AND THE HISTORIANS
Written by Herbert Butterfield.
Stock no. 1831207
1st. 1957. Hardback. Almost very good condition.

A biography, which addresses the historical view of the monarch George III, and also discusses the scholarly controversy that centres on the King and his reputation as an unconstitutional tyrant. Turquoise cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 304 pages including index. Slight lean to spine. Boards are grubby, spine browned. Text block and endpapers browned. Some foxing present, mainly to text block.

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Cover of GEORGE III AND THE HISTORIANS by Herbert Butterfield

Contents

  • BOOK ONE
  • THE HISTORIAN AND HIS EVIDENCE
  • BOOK TWO
  • GEORGE III AND HIS INTERPRETERS
  • Introduction
  • I. THE EARLY SOURCES
  • 1. Sources friendly to the Court
  • 2. The Opposition Evidence
  • 3. George III and the "Patriot" Ideal
  • II. THE RISE OF A SERIOUS HISTORIOGRAPHY
  • 1. The Founding of the Main Tradition
  • 2. Early Developments
  • THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION
  • 1. Variations on the Theme of Adolphus
  • 2. The New Evidence, 1838-53
  • IV. THE CRITICAL CONTROVERSY
  • 1. Horace Walpole's Memoirs
  • 2. John Wilson Croker and the Tory View
  • 3. "The Quarterly" versus the "Edinburgh Review"
  • 4. Compromise and Synthesis in Massey
  • V. THE VICTORY OF THE WHIG INTERPRETATION
  • 1. Erskine May and his Contemporaries
  • 2. Lecky and George Otto Trevelyan
  • VI. THE RETREAT FROM THE WHIG INTERPRETATION
  • 1. German and British Scholarship Compared
  • 2. The Return to Adolphus
  • BOOK THREE
  • GEORGE III AND THE NAMIER SCHOOL
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Rise of Structural Analysis
  • 3. Narrative History and Structural Analysis
  • 4. The Occupational Disease of the Historians of Structure
  • 5. The Occupational Disease of the Research Student
  • 6. The Framework of George III's Ideas and Purposes
  • 7. Party as a Mental as well as a Material Phenomenon
  • 8. George III's Programme as presented to the public
  • 9. The Patriot King
  • 10. Corruption
  • 11. The Duke of Newcastle
  • 12. The Nature of the Constitution
  • 13. The Rockingham Party and the Position of Ministers
  • 14. Closet Activity
  • 15. The Chatham Administration
  • 16. The King's Friedns
  • 17. Can History be too Mechanically Scientific?
  • Index