Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (Paperback, Revised)

Part I. Introduction: 1. Hanoverian politics and the 1760s; 2. Historiography and method; Part II. The Reconfiguration of Politics: 3. Whig and tort; 4. Opposition and the proprietary parties; 5. From Old Corps to Rockinghamite whigs: the emergence of a party; 6. Pitt and patriotism: a case study in political argument; 7. Ministerial responsibility and the powers of the Crown; Part III. An Alternative Structure of Politics: 8. The press in the 1760s; Part IV. Focused Radicalism: 9. Personality, propaganda and ritual: Wilkes and the Wilkites; 10. American ideology and British radicalism; the case for parliamentary reform; Part V. Two Political Nations: 11. The politicians, the press and the public; 12. The present discontents; party ideology and public unrest.