Pressure and Parliament

From Civil War to Civil Society
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-119-48972-6
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

Reihe: Parliamentary History Book Series

This volume considers the varied forms of parliamentary pressure in the period between the civil wars and the advent of universal suffrage in the twentieth century.
* The authors examine the ways in which parliament accepted, invited, or moulded channels of political pressure from those outside their ranks and outside the electoral process
* Chapters highlight the technologies of growth of private and public petitioning, the pressure to act on new national and international questions, and the ways in which parliamentarians themselves orchestrated pressure
* Includes a range of insights into the collaborative porousness of political pressures on parliament, not simply as the force of 'pressure from without'

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huzzey, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Bürgerkriege
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Parlament
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Contesting Interests: Rethinking Pressure, Parliament, Nation, and Empire (Richard Huzzey)

The Politics of Pressure

2. The Lowest Degree of Freedom': The Right to Petition Parliament, 1640-1800 (Mark Knights)

3. Conversations with Parliament: Women and the Politics of Pressure in 19th-Century England (Sarah Richardson)

Social and Economic Pressures

4. Petitions, Economic Legislation and Interest Groups in Britain, 1660-1800 (Julian Hoppit)

5. Social Reform and the Pressure of 'Progress' on Parliament, 1660-1914 (Lawrence Goldman)

Intellectual and Spiritual Pressures

6. From Estate under Pressure to Spiritual Pressure Group: The Bishops and Parliament (Stephen Taylor and Richard Huzzey)

7. Reforming Expectations: Parliamentary Pressure and Moral Reform (Amanda B. Moniz)

8. The Too Clever by Half People' and Parliament (William Whyte)

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Huzzey is a reader in history at Durham University. He has published Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain (2012), and co-edited, with Robert Burroughs, a volume entitled The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2015). Alongside Henry Miller, he leads the Leverhulme Trust research project 'Re-thinking Petitions, Parliament, and People, 1780-1918'.