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    Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (/ˈneɪmiər/; 27 June 1888 – 19 August 1960) was a British historian of Polish-Jewish background. His best-known works were The...
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  • attempts to restore the Stuarts by a rising with foreign assistance". Sir Lewis Namier noticed that for the reigns of George I and George II, Tory family papers...
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    from this need for a favourable reading of the omens by the augurs. Lewis Namier introduced his prosopographical study of eighteenth century politics...
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    India–Pakistan Radcliffe Line I Saw Poland Betrayed by Arthur Bliss Lane Lewis Bernstein Namier Molotov Line Oder–Neisse line Spa Conference of 1920 Territorial...
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  • Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III was a book written by Lewis Namier. At the time of its first publication in 1929 it caused a historiographical...
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    which Parliament viewed as being in violation of its ancient liberties. Lewis Namier gives a number of examples of criminals escaping prosecution, public...
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  • Austrian-born historian Alfred Francis Pribram and the Polish-born historian Sir Lewis Namier. Taylor's earlier writings reflected Pribram's favourable opinion of...
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    eds. Lewis Namier and John Brooke, The House of Commons, 1754–1790, 3 vols (Secker & Warburg, London, 1964). See also biography of Lewis Namier. Vol.1:...
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  • Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 1957) Pages 158 to 172, Lewis Namier...
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    George III's life. However, in the mid-twentieth century the work of Lewis Namier, who thought George was "much maligned", started a re-evaluation of the...
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