Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III

Abstract

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.