The Rockingham Connection and the Second Founding of the Whig Party

Very good condition used 1996 First Edition Hardback with intact Dust Jacket. Published by McGill-Queen's University Press. Author: Warren M. Elofson ISBN: 9780773513884. Approx dims: 235mm h x 165mm w x 25mm d. Intact clean condition pictorial grey dust jacket with slight signs of handling. Intact DJ spine. DJ over very good condition brown cloth boards. 266 clean inside pages of English text. Previous owner's name plate with book number to inside first blank page. No other inscriptions. Slight foxing to page ends. Image shown is actual book for sale. Synopsis: The Rockingham Connection and the Second Founding of the Whig Party is a study of the ideological development of the Rockingham Whigs in Britain between 1768 and 1773 and a re-examination of the party system in the later part of the eighteenth century. W.M. Elofson traces the evolution of the Rockingham Whigs from court-centred supporters of the status quo to proponents of parliamentary reform and illustrates the central role the Party played in the evolution of liberal philosophy that preceded the massive reform movement in the next century.…