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William Beckford: First Prime Minister of the London Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C) / Perry Gauci | |
Publisher: Yale University Press | |
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 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.