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The Pitt-Newcastle coalition and the conduct of the seven years' war
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The purpose of this thesis is to study the interaction of politics and the formation of war policy in the three years between the beginning of the Pitt-Newcastle coalition in June 1757 and the death of George II in October 1760. These limits are prescribed partly by the fact that this period, preceded and followed by political turmoil, has a unity of its own as a period of political quiescence; and partly by Sir Lewis Namier's work on the years 1760-1762 and the work at the moment being do...
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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2026-02-25
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- E J S Fraser
- Copyright date:
- 1976
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