Britain in the Age of Walpole

by Jeremy Black

Genres: History

Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Jeremy Black is an English historian, who was formerly a professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
Black is the author of over 180 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and has been described by one commentator as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age". He has published on military and political history, including Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975 (2001) and The World in the Twentieth Century (2002).

Reviews

[Emilija · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF at page 50.

I love this topic and I find Walpole incredibly interesting. But this book was so dry that it was not a book to read for enjoyment. I found myself skimming quite a bit because I just couldn’t get into it.

[Peter Harrison · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent short survey of British society, economics, and politics during the ascendancy of Robert Walpole in the early 18th century. I came to this mostly from an interesting in the background to Jacobitism generally, and the lead up to the 1745 rising specifically, and in probably does presume a certain level of background knowledge of the period. That said it's a great general survey.