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Book Synopsis Honour, Interest & Power by : Ruth Paley
Download or read book Honour, Interest & Power written by Ruth Paley and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Condemned as 'useless and dangerous', the House of Lords was abolished in the revolution of 1649, shortly after the execution of the King. When it was reinstated, along with the monarchy, as part of the Restoration of 1660, the House entered into one of the most turbulent and dramatic periods in its history. Over the next half century or more, the Lords were the stage on which some of the critical confrontations in English and British constitutional and political history were played out: the battles over the exclusion from the throne of the later James II; the key debates over the 'abdication' of William III; the many struggles over the Act of Union with Scotland. This highly illustrated book presents the first results from the research undertaken by the History of Parliament Trust on the peers and bishops between the Restoration and the accession of George I. It shows them as politicians at Westminster, engaging with the central arguments of the day, but also using Parliament to pursue their own projects; as members of an elite intensely conscious of their status and determined to defend their honour against commoners, Irish peers and each other; as a class apart, always active in devising new schemes - successful and unsuccessful - to increase their wealth and 'interest'; and as local grandees, to whom local society looked for leadership and protection. From the proud Duke of Somerset to the beggarly Lord Mohun, from the devious Earl of Oxford to the disgruntled Lord Lucas, the material here presents an initial impression of the nature of the Restoration House of Lords and the men who formed it, showing them in their best moments, when they vigorously defended the law and the constitution, and in their worst, as they obsessively concerned themselves with honour and precedence and indefatigably pursued private interests. Edited by Ruth Paley and Paul Seaward, with Beverly Adams, Robin Eagles, Stuart Handley and Charles Littleton
Book Synopsis The British and Their Laws in the Eighteenth Century by : David Lemmings
Download or read book The British and Their Laws in the Eighteenth Century written by David Lemmings and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New analysis and interpretation of law and legal institutions in the "long eighteenth century". Law and legal institutions were of huge importance in the governance of Georgian society: legislation expanded the province of administrative authority out of all proportion, while the reach of the common law and its communal traditions of governance diminished, at least outside British North America. But what did the rule of law mean to eighteenth-century people, and how did it connect with changing experiences of law in all their bewildering complexity?This question has received much recent critical attention, but despite widespread agreement about Law's significance as a key to unlock so much which was central to contemporary life, as a whole previous scholarship has only offered a fragmented picture of the Laws in their social meanings and actions. Through a broader-brush approach, The British and their Laws in the Eighteenth Century contributes fresh analyses of law in England andBritish settler colonies, c. 1680-1830; its expert contributors consider among other matters the issues of participation, central-local relations, and the maintenance of common law traditions in the context of increasing legislative interventions and grants of statutory administrative powers. Contributors: SIMON DEVEREAUX, MICHAEL LOBBAN, DOUGLAS HAY, JOANNA INNES, WILFRED PREST, C.W. BROOKS, RANDALL MCGOWEN, DAVID THOMAS KONIG, BRUCE KERCHER
Book Synopsis A Short History of Parliament by : Clyve Jones
Download or read book A Short History of Parliament written by Clyve Jones and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This institutional history charts the development and evolution of parliament from the Scottish and Irish parliaments, through the post-Act of Union parliament and into the devolved assemblies of the 1990s. It considers all aspects of parliament as an institution, including membership, parties, constituencies and elections.
Book Synopsis A History of England in the Eighteenth Century by : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Download or read book A History of England in the Eighteenth Century written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis All Souls College, Oxford in the Early Eighteenth Century by : Jeffrey Wigelsworth
Download or read book All Souls College, Oxford in the Early Eighteenth Century written by Jeffrey Wigelsworth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first detailed history of All Souls College under the Wardenship of Bernard Gardiner, Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth offers a character driven story that addresses scheming, duplicity, and self-righteousness projected against some of the most important political and religious episodes of the early eighteenth century and the people who animated them. Throughout this book, Wigelsworth illuminates the ways in which All Souls and its warden were caught between competing visions of what England, and consequently Oxford, would look like in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Book Synopsis Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents by : Edmund Burke
Download or read book Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The House of Commons, 1754-1790 by : Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
Download or read book The House of Commons, 1754-1790 written by Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century by : Jeremy Black
Download or read book Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century written by Jeremy Black and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of British and foreign archival sources, this book tackles the role of Parliament in the conduct of eighteenth-century foreign policy, the impact of this policy on parliamentary politics, and the quality of parliamentary debates. It is also an important study for our assessment of eighteenth-century Britain, and also, more generally, for an understanding of the role of contingency in the assessment of political systems. Reflecting over a quarter-century of work on parliamentary sources, the book highlights the influence of Parliament, positive and negative, direct and indirect, on foreign policy and politics. It also has great contemporary relevance as we consider the effectiveness of democratic states when confronting authoritarian rivals, and the rights of representative bodies to be consulted before wars are launched.
Book Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by : Paul Langford
Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction written by Paul Langford and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-08-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.
Book Synopsis The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain by : Mark Knights
Download or read book The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain written by Mark Knights and published by Boydell Press is. This book was released on 2017 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to undermine them.
Book Synopsis The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain by : H.T. Dickinson
Download or read book The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain written by H.T. Dickinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This challenging and original study examines the most important aspects of popular political culture in eighteenth-century Britain. The first part explores the way the British people could influence existing political institutions or could exploit their existing powers, by looking at the role of the people in parliamentary elections, in a wide range of pressure groups, in their local urban communities, and in popular demonstrations. The second part shows how the British people became increasingly politicised during the eighteenth century and how they tried to shape or defend their political world.
Book Synopsis A History of Law in Europe by : Antonio Padoa-Schioppa
Download or read book A History of Law in Europe written by Antonio Padoa-Schioppa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspects and the original developments of different countries. As well as legal scholars and professionals, it will appeal to those interested in the general history of European civilisation.
Book Synopsis British and American Foundings of Parliamentary Science, 1774–1801 by : Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Download or read book British and American Foundings of Parliamentary Science, 1774–1801 written by Peter J. Aschenbrenner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon declaring independence from Britain in July 1776, the United States Congress urgently needed to establish its credentials as a legitimate government that could credibly challenge the claims of the British Crown. In large measure this legitimacy rested upon setting in place the procedural and legal structures upon which all claims of governmental authority rest. In this book, Aschenbrenner explores the ways in which the nascent United States rapidly built up a system of parliamentary procedure that borrowed heavily from the British government it sought to replace. In particular, he looks at how, over the course of twenty-five years, Thomas Jefferson drew upon the writings of the Chief Clerk of the British Parliament, John Hatsell, to frame and codify American parliamentary procedures. Published in 1801, Jefferson’s Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States presents rules, instances, citations and commentary as modern readers would expect them to appear, quoting Hatsell and other British authorities numerous times. If the two nations suffered any unpleasant relations in the First War for American Independence - Aschenbrenner concludes - one would be hard pressed to detect it from Jefferson’s Manual. Indeed, direct comparison of the House of Commons and the Continental Congress shows remarkable similarities between the ambitions of the two institutions as they both struggled to adapt their political processes to meet the changing national and international circumstances of the late-eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Unreformed House of Commons by : Edward Porritt
Download or read book The Unreformed House of Commons written by Edward Porritt and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Parliamentary Debates by : Great Britain. Parliament
Download or read book The Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis the unreformed house of commons by : Edward Porritt
Download or read book the unreformed house of commons written by Edward Porritt and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1909 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The House of Commons Library by : David Menhennet
Download or read book The House of Commons Library written by David Menhennet and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
