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Salutary Neglect: Colonial Administration Under the Duke of Newcastle
By (Author) James A. Henretta
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political structure and processes
941.0720924
Paperback
394
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
During the remarkably long period (1724-1754) that Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, served as England's secretary of state, private interests and the exigencies of domestic politics rather than a rational assessment of England's stake in America determined colonial policy. As no purposeful effort was made to administer the colonies" politic