Author: BLACK, JEREMY.
Title: Pitt The Elder.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xviii, 320; bibliographical note, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy. Cambridge; University of Cambridge; 1992. The book offers a readable yet scholarly account of the life of one of the great statesmen of empire, William Pitt the Elder, First Earl of Chatham (1708-78), Chatham is seen as a political outsider who rose to direct British policy in the Seven Years War, the crucial struggle that gave Canada to Britain. A critic of domestic corruption, he was subsequently champion of American liberties.
Keywords: biography england history
Title: Pitt The Elder.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xviii, 320; bibliographical note, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy. Cambridge; University of Cambridge; 1992. The book offers a readable yet scholarly account of the life of one of the great statesmen of empire, William Pitt the Elder, First Earl of Chatham (1708-78), Chatham is seen as a political outsider who rose to direct British policy in the Seven Years War, the crucial struggle that gave Canada to Britain. A critic of domestic corruption, he was subsequently champion of American liberties.
Keywords: biography england history
Price: AUD 30.00 = appr. US$ 20.76 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 115713
- Book number: 115713