CONTENTS

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Introduction[1]
I.Early Years[34]
II.At Cambridge[50]
III.Political Apprenticeship[63]
IV.At Westminster and Goostree’s[76]
V.The Peace with America[97]
VI.The Coalition[124]
VII.The Struggle with Fox[152]
VIII.Retrenchment[178]
IX.Reform[196]
X.India[216]
XI.The Irish Problem (1785)[241]
XII.Pitt and his Friends (1783–94)[267]
XIII.Isolation (1784, 1785)[296]
XIV.L’Entente cordiale (1786)[321]
XV.The Dutch Crisis (1786, 1787)[349]
XVI.The Triple Alliance[368]
XVII.The Prince of Wales[391]
XVIII.The Regency Crisis[406]
XIX.Australia and Canada[432]
XX.The Slave Trade[454]
XXI.The Schemes of Catharine II[480]
XXII.Partition or Pacification?[503]
XXIII.Partition or Pacification? (continued)[518]
XXIV.The French Revolution[537]
XXV.The Dispute with Spain[562]
XXVI.Pitt and Catharine II[589]
XXVII.The Triumph of Catharine II[608]