Table of Contents

Preface; Notes on references; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The accession of Newcastle, March–September 1754; 2. The defeat of the Pitt-Fox Alliance, October 1754–March 1755; 3. The reconstruction of the ministry, April–September 1755: Leicester House and the recruitment of Fox; 4. 'That exploded trick': Newcastle, Fox and the defeat of Leicester House patriotism, October 1755–March 1756; 5. The resignation of Newcastle, April–October 1756; 6. The Pitt-Devonshire ministry, October 1756–March 1757; 7. 'The arbiter of England': the formation of the Newcastle-Pitt coalition, April–June 1757; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

A major revisionist study of the crisis that destroyed the early eighteenth-century party system.