Product Description: A careful analysis of the life of King George III, showing how and why disastrous decisions in colonial policy were made in the early 1760's that led to the American Revolution. It also highlights the life and influences upon the king leading to the loss of its North American empire...read more

Product Description: Book by Abadeer, Adel S.

Presents an overview of the diplomatic, military and maritime history of the causes and conduct of the Seven Years' War and its American manifestation, the French and Indian War (1753-63). This book also includes biographical sketches and critical reappraisals of some of the major figures of the period.

Product Description: The International Thought of Herbert Butterfield brings together material from Butterfield's previously unpublished papers and a critical commentary from two leading Butterfield scholars: Paul Sharp and Karl Schweizer. They recover Butterfield's contribution to international thought...read more

Product Description: Focusing on a period of significant transformation and growth, essays show how positive interaction between parliament and the press enhanced political awareness and populism, altered traditional models of patronage and authority, and expanded the self-reforming capacity of the British state...read more

Product Description: Never before, since the Federation of the Australian Colonies in 1901, had the Constitution of Australia come under such intense scrutiny as occurred in the lead-up to the republican Referendum of 1999. Just as there were differences of opinion amongst republicans on what form an Australian republic should take, there were different perceptions amongst monarchists on what formed the modern day structures of Australia's Constitutional monarchy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Based on hitherto unused manuscript material, War, Politics and Diplomacy examines the origin, development and collapse of the Anglo-Prussian alliance against the complex backdrop of European politics during the Seven Years War (1756-63)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a detailed scholarly appraisal (based on French archival material) of Callieres' life and career. It also throws light on the course of 17th-century French diplomacy.

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Product Description: In this book Cobbett's writing and its influence on public opinion and high government is closely examined. The authors explain how his origins and prejudices moulded him into the dominant voice of romantic reactionary Toryism, and show how important he was to the English resistance to the alien ideologies that swept the world in his times...read more

Product Description: This study contributes toward re-assessment of the Anglo-Prussian alliance and illuminates the mechanics of the international system of the period. It relies extensively on previously unconsulted official and private papers.