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James A. Henretta, "Salutary Neglect": Colonial Administration Under the
Duke of Newcastle (1972). On the ideological influences behind salutary neglect,
also see Herbert Butterfield, "Some Reflections on the Early Years of
George Ill's Reign," Journal of British Studies (May 1965). On the fall of
Newcastle and the rise of the Marquis of Rockingham as the leader of the
Newcastle Whigs, Ross J. S. Hoffman, The Marquis: A Study of Lord Rockingham,
1130-1182 (1973), is definitive, but assumes considerable knowledge of
British politics of the period. George Rude, Wtlkes and Liberty (1962), is excellent
on John Wilkes and the Wilkite movement.
The rise of the new generation of English politicians in opposition to the
Walpole-Pelham system of salutary neglect is detailed in Sir Lewis Bernstein
Namier, England in the Age of the American Revolution (2d ed., 1961); and
Namier and John Brooke, Charles Townshend (1964). The emergence of the
Grenville clan in opposition to the Pelhamite policies of peace and laissez-faire
is presented in the discussion of William Pitt and his brothers-in-law, Earl
Temple and George Grenville, by Lewis M. Wiggin, The Faction of Cousins: A
Political Account of the Grenvilles, 1113-1163 (1958); see also Erich Eyck,
Pitt vs. Fox (1950), and especially Owen A. Sherrard, Lord Chatham: Pitt and
the Seven Years' War (1955). Pitt's (Chatham's) ideology and personality are
discussed in John C. Long, Mr. Pitt and America's Birthright (1940), and
J. H. Plumb, Chatham (1965).
A brief discussion of the Anglo-French rivalry in this era is in Walter L.
Dorn, Competition for Empire, 1140-1163 (1940), and a brief overall survey
of the wars in America in Howard H. Peckham, Colonial Wars, 1689-1162
(1964). On the War of Jenkins' Ear, see Richard Pares, War and Trade in the
West Indies, 1139-1163 (1936). The best history of the French and Indian War
is Edward Pierce Hamilton, The French and Indian Wars: Battles and Forts in
the Wilderness (1962). On the conquest of New France, see George M. Wrong,
The Rise and Fall of New France (2 vols., 1928), for the history of New France,
and Wrong, The Conquest of New France (1918), on the conquest by the
British. The long-time consequences of British conquest are discussed by John
C. Rule, "The Old Regime in America: A Review of Recent Interpretations of
France in America." William and Mary Quarterly (October 1962).
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