William Beckford: First Prime Minister of the London Empire

William Beckford: First Prime Minister of the London Empire

Perry Gauci
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Author:  Perry Gauci
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  304
Publisher:  Yale University Press
Year:  2013
ISBN:  9780300166750

This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era. He was born in 1709 into a family of wealthy sugar planters living in Jamaica, when the colonies were still peripheral to Britain. By the time he died in 1770, the colonies loomed large and were considered the source of Britain's growing global power.

Beckford grew his fortune in Jamaica, but he spent most of his adult life in London, where he was elected Lord Mayor twice. He was one of the few politicians to have experienced imperial growing pains on both sides of the Atlantic, and his life offers a riveting look at how the expanding empire challenged existing political, social, and cultural norms.

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