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The Minister and his Peace: Lord Shelburne, the British Pamphlet Press and the Peace of Paris, 1783

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By (author): Rory T. Cornish

The British press in the eighteenth century significantly influenced politics, often making or breaking careers. The career of Lord Shelburne, the first Irish-born British Prime Minister, exemplifies this, yet he has remained something of an enigma. His brief administration (July 1782 to March 1783) was nonetheless notable for recognizing the independence of the United States. This investigation into the contemporary pamphlet press illustrates why he was so distrusted as well as the long-term influences shaping the 1783 Peace of Paris, and challenges the view that Shelburne was an idealist out of step with his times. On the contrary, it concludes many of his ideas were mainstream and pragmatic. Both the general and academic reader interested in eighteenth-century biography, British history, Atlantic colonial history, media studies, and peace studies will find this book valuable. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Dec 2024
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781036413170

About Rory T. Cornish

Dr Rory T. Cornish studied at the University of East Anglia Davidson College North Carolina and University College London where his graduate research was supervised by Professor Ian R. Christie FBA. Relocating to the United States in 1989 he became chair of the Department of History and Government at the University of Louisiana and later the chair of the History Department at Winthrop University. Promoted to a full professorship in 2007 he was later appointed Emeritus Professor of History by Winthrop University following his early retirement in 2014. A former member of the National Liberal Club in Whitehall he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2008 and has contributed to fifteen joint publications including The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American (2005) Eighteenth-Century British Historians (2007) and Confederate Generals in the Western Theater (2011). This is his third book on eighteenth-century history.

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