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Salutary Neglect: Colonial Administration Under the Duke of Newcastle
By (Author) James A. Henretta
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political structure and processes
941.0720924
Hardback
394
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
709g
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