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Author Black, Jeremy

Title George II : puppet of the politicians? / Jeremy Black

Publisher Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2007
ISSN/ISBN 9781781380543 (electronic bk.)
1781380546 (electronic bk.)
9780859898072
0859898075
Descript 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : 1 map
Content text
Media computer
Carrier online resource
Call No. DA501.A3 B53 2007
Series JSTOR electronic books -- ConnectNY EBA Project
Exeter studies in history
Exeter studies in history
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index
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Summary Jeremy Black sets out to demonstrate the unfairness of charges that George II was a puppet king overshadowed by towering politicians such as Walpole, and later, Pitt. He has pieced together a figure who was the pivot in an often finely balanced - and sometimes dangerously unbalanced - fledgling political system
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Subject George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
Kings and rulers -- Biography
Great Britain -- History -- George II, 1727-1760
Electronic books. local
Alt Author JSTOR (Organization)
Alt Title George the second : puppet of the politicians?