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Autobiography and Political Correspondence of Augustus Henry, Third Duke of Grafton, K. G
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Autobiography and Political Correspondence of Augustus Henry, Third Duke of Grafton, K. G (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Autobiography and Political Correspondence of Augustus Henry, Third Duke of Grafton, K. G Augustus Henry Fitz-Roy, the third Duke of Grafton, has received somewhat hard measure in the histories of the eighteenth century. The bitterest invective of Junius has assailed his character, and has thrown contempt on his political capacity: the solemn denunciations of the Whig historians have marked his departure, albeit in the company of Chatham and Camden, from the true Whig faith: his own record of his political career has been ransacked by writers of history and editors of memoirs, but of these scarcely one has been impelled by gratitude to present an adequate picture of the statesma...
The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III
An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded in "a fit of absence of mind." He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the modern world were rooted in political conflicts and movements in Britain. It was British conservatives who shaped the Second Empire into one of conquest and dominion, emphasizing the extraction of resources and the subjugation of colonial populations. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Vaughn shows how the East India Company was transformed from a corporation into an imperial power in the service of British political forces opposed to the rising radicalism of the period. The Company's dominion in Bengal, where it raised territorial revenue and maintained a large army, was an autocratic bulwark of Britain's established order. A major work of political and imperial history, this volume offers an important new understanding of the era and its global ramifications.
