TY - JOUR
AU - Cone, Carl B.
AB - 968 Reviews of Books The Chatham Administration, 1766-1768 (1956). Namier proposes to rewrite and republish his own initial volume under the more appropriate title, Newcastle and Bute, making it one of a series with the general title England in the Age of the American Revolution. Associates will push the subject backward to 1754 and for- ward to 1784, apparently with similar emphases and on the scale characteristic of the two volumes already published. Butterfield's complaint that Namier and his group have neglected the work of historians who have preceded them, some of whom reached similar conclusions, will scarcely deter those enlisted in the project in progress from going on in the manner they have begun. There is something to be said for beginning anew when one is seeking to modify the approaches to a subject traditional at various stages in the past. And Butterfield's criticism will not be helpful if it serves merely to generate controversy. It might contribute more to enlarge and illumine the subject if it should inspire mature scholars to traverse again the wealth of information and materials brought to light by the Namier group, beginning considerably earlier in time, adopting somewhat different premises, and raising 
TI - English Historical Documents. Volume X, 1714–1783. Edited by D. B. Horn and Mary Ransome. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1957. Pp. xxvii, 972. $15.20.)
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/63.4.968
DA - 1958-07-01
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SP - 968
EP - 969
VL - 63
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