W. A. Speck has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds since 1983. He has taught at the universities of Exeter, Newcastle upon Tyne and Hull, and held visiting professorships at Portland State University and the College of William and Mary in the USA. He is currently engaged on research into England's North American colonies in the eighteenth century. His previous books include Stability and Strife: England 1714-1760 (Arnold, 1977); The Butcher: The Duke of Cumberland and the Suppression of the '45 (Blackwell).

"This is a valuable portrait of the political maneuvering in the first decade of the eighteenth century. Speck judiciously handles the great personalities that dominated that era... the year by year format does not present the political grappling and gambling of the first age of party in vivid relief." History: Reviews of New Books

• Note on Dates. Preface.1. The 1700s.2. 1701.3. 1702.4. 1703.5. 1704.6. 1705.7. 1706.8. 1707.9. 1708.10. 1709.11. 1710.Appendix.Notes.

W. A. Speck has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds since 1983. He has taught at the universities of Exeter, Newcastle upon Tyne and Hull, and held visiting professorships at Portland State University and the College of William and Mary in the USA. He is currently engaged on research into England's North American colonies in the eighteenth century. His previous books include Stability and Strife: England 1714-1760 (Arnold, 1977); The Butcher: The Duke of Cumberland and the Suppression of the '45 (Blackwell).

"This is a valuable portrait of the political maneuvering in the first decade of the eighteenth century. Speck judiciously handles the great personalities that dominated that era... the year by year format does not present the political grappling and gambling of the first age of party in vivid relief." History: Reviews of New Books

• Note on Dates. Preface.1. The 1700s.2. 1701.3. 1702.4. 1703.5. 1704.6. 1705.7. 1706.8. 1707.9. 1708.10. 1709.11. 1710.Appendix.Notes.

W. A. Speck has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds since 1983. He has taught at the universities of Exeter, Newcastle upon Tyne and Hull, and held visiting professorships at Portland State University and the College of William and Mary in the USA. He is currently engaged on research into England's North American colonies in the eighteenth century. His previous books include Stability and Strife: England 1714-1760 (Arnold, 1977); The Butcher: The Duke of Cumberland and the Suppression of the '45 (Blackwell).

"This is a valuable portrait of the political maneuvering in the first decade of the eighteenth century. Speck judiciously handles the great personalities that dominated that era... the year by year format does not present the political grappling and gambling of the first age of party in vivid relief." History: Reviews of New Books

• Note on Dates. Preface.1. The 1700s.2. 1701.3. 1702.4. 1703.5. 1704.6. 1705.7. 1706.8. 1707.9. 1708.10. 1709.11. 1710.Appendix.Notes.