Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• BOOK ONE
• THE HISTORIAN AND HIS EVIDENCE
• BOOK TWO
• GEORGE III AND HIS INTERPRETERS
• Introduction
• I. THE EARLY SOURCES
• 1. Sources friendly to the Court
• 2. The Opposition Evidence
• 3. George III and the "Patriot" Ideal
• II. THE RISE OF A SERIOUS HISTORIOGRAPHY
• 1. The Founding of the Main Tradition
• 2. Early Developments
• THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION
• 1. Variations on the Theme of Adolphus
• 2. The New Evidence, 1838-53
• IV. THE CRITICAL CONTROVERSY
• 1. Horace Walpole's Memoirs
• 2. John Wilson Croker and the Tory View
• 3. "The Quarterly" versus the "Edinburgh Review"
• 4. Compromise and Synthesis in Massey
• V. THE VICTORY OF THE WHIG INTERPRETATION
• 1. Erskine May and his Contemporaries
• 2. Lecky and George Otto Trevelyan
• VI. THE RETREAT FROM THE WHIG INTERPRETATION
• 1. German and British Scholarship Compared
• 2. The Return to Adolphus
• BOOK THREE
• GEORGE III AND THE NAMIER SCHOOL
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Rise of Structural Analysis
• 3. Narrative History and Structural Analysis
• 4. The Occupational Disease of the Historians of Structure
• 5. The Occupational Disease of the Research Student
• 6. The Framework of George III's Ideas and Purposes
• 7. Party as a Mental as well as a Material Phenomenon
• 8. George III's Programme as presented to the public
• 9. The Patriot King
• 10. Corruption
• 11. The Duke of Newcastle
• 12. The Nature of the Constitution
• 13. The Rockingham Party and the Position of Ministers
• 14. Closet Activity
• 15. The Chatham Administration
• 16. The King's Friedns
• 17. Can History be too Mechanically Scientific?
• Index