The Minister and his Peace

Lord Shelburne, the British Pamphlet Press and the Peace of Paris, 1783

Rory T. Cornish (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

261 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-1317-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-0364-1317-9 / 1036413179
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-1317-0 / 9781036413170
Zustand	Neuware