The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2: Earl of ChathamTaylor & Francis, 1966 - 432 pages This impressive study of the life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was first published in 1913 when it achieved instant recognition as a brilliant appraisal of Pitt's career. It is a book with many outstanding merits to commend it to students of eighteenth century English history. Based on thorough and extensive researches, it traces Pitt's career from his election as a Member of Parliament for Old Sarum in 1735 and gives a well balanced account of his part in home and foriegn politics and colonial affairs during the next 30 years. The book contains many good maps and an excellent index, and a very valuable appendix gives a list of all Pitt's extant speeches, with references to where reports of them may be found. These two substantial volumes are invaluable as a portrait of one of the most outstanding historical figures of the eighteenth century. |
Contents
CHAPTER PAGES | 1 |
CAUSES OF PITTS DECLINE 3557 | 35 |
THE NEW REIGN 17601761 5873 | 58 |
PITTS PEACE NEGOTIATIONS 74102 | 74 |
PITTS DOWNFALL 1761 103125 | 103 |
PITT AND THE PEACE Of Paris 17621763 126149 | 126 |
CHATHAMS MINISTRY 17661768 | 212 |
CHATHAMS FAILURE | 219 |
CHARLES TOWNSHENDS TRIUMPH | 229 |
THE TRAGIC CLOSE | 240 |
THE GREAT COMMONER IN THE LORDS 1769 | 248 |
AUTUMN DAYS 17721775 | 288 |
THE LAST STAGE 17751778 | 314 |
A LIST OF SPEECHES DELIVERED BY WILLIAM PITT | 335 |
B BIBLIOGRAPHY | 352 |