William Beckford - First Prime Minister of the London Empire

Klappentext The definitive biography of William Beckford, the first prime minister of the London Empire. Zusammenfassung A biography of William Beckford that provides a look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. He was born in 1709 into a family of wealthy sugar planters living in Jamaica! when the colonies were still peripheral to Britain.

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• Authors: Dr Perry Gauci, Perry Gauci, GAUCI PERRY
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2013
• EAN: 9780300166750
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16675-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History; The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History; Lewis Walpole Series in Eighte; The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies