English Whiggism and The American Revolution
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1942. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [10], 153, [5] pages. Footnotes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Tear at top of spine. Name of previous owner in ink at top of title page. Pencil marks to text and margins noted. This is University of California Publications in History, Volume XXVIII. George Herbert Guttridge was born on August 6, 1898. He went to St. John's College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. and M.A. at Cambridge. From 1922 to 1923 he studied at Harvard on a Choate fellowship. He chose an appointment at Berkeley and he remained from 1925 until his retirement to Carmel in 1965. He became chairman of the history department in 1957, and in 1958 he was appointed Sather Professor. George Guttridge was a meticulous and productive scholar. The Colonial Policy of William III and the West Indies(1922), was followed by English Whiggism and the American Revolution (1942), The Early Career of Lord Rockingham (1952), and The Correspondence of Edmund Burke III (1774-1778)(196)1. He worked particularly on the political history of the middle years of the eighteenth century, on faction and party, and on the group of Whigs around Lord Rockingham and Edmund Burke. He was very pleased by the reissue of English Whiggism in 1963. Study of the conflicting loyalties and relationships that developed between the English Whigs, King George 3d, England's imperial policies and the American Revolutionaries. The author wrote that this essay is concerned with the parliamentary group in England which claimed the whig tradition during the American Revolution. Its main theme is the relation of partizan divisions to imperial policy, and it originated from a particular inters in the lesser figures of that whiggism which was dominated by Burke. It is worth asking whether there was any reality in the whiggism and toryism of those who constantly used the terms at this time, and whether there was any clear relation between domestic controversy and the imperial problem. The present essay attempts no mane that to suggest answers to these questions. For such an essay a formal bibliography would be either pretentious or inadequate. Obligations are acknowledged in the footnotes, where reference will be found to standard printed works, to many contemporary pamphlets, and to some manuscript collections in the British Museum and elsewhere. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: American Revolution, Whig Party, Parliament, Edmund Burke, Charles Rockingham, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, William Dowdeswell, Charles James Fox, Frederick Lord North, William Shelburne, George Savile
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