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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"William Pitt"”.
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Scotland and the British army, c.1700-c.1750
… of all origins in military service well before William Pitt the Elder boasted of ‘harnessing’ the military resources of the Highlands in 1762.
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Party conflict and foreign crisis at Cambridge University, 1745 to 1806
… from the Jacobite Rising in 1745 to the death of William Pitt the Younger in 1806. Cambridge University has frequently been a partisan and ideological battleground in British political history. The university’s leaders and ideas have been featured in a wide range of studies of eighteenth-century …
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Census-taking, political economy and state formation in Britain, c. 1790-1840
… during the 1790s, paying patticular attention to William Pitt the Younger's use of political arithmetic to estimate the yield of Britain's first income tax. The fou1th chapter examines the function and limitations of the population data used by four national accountants - Benjamin Bell, Henry …