| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Modern Europe and European America / Maija Jansson -- The representation of the people in eighteenth-century Britain / H.T. Dickinson -- Parliament and the idea of political accountability in early modern Britain / Paul Seaward -- Boroughmongering, biography, and the reform of Parliament: James Boswell and the Earl of Lonsdale / Gordon Turnbull -- The unpresentable French? / David A. Bell -- Noble corporation and provincial diets in the ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire ca. 1648-1802 / Ronald G. Asch -- Power, politics and parliament in seventeenth century Ireland / Jane Ohlmeyer -- Repression and representation: political culture in early modern Scandinavia / Knud J.V. Jespersen -- An unbalanced representation: the nature and functions of the Cortes of Castile in the Habsburg period (1538-1698) / Jose Ignacio Fortea Perez -- Traditions of consensual governance in the construction of state authority in the early modern empires in America / Jack P. Greene -- Governing a colony pas commes les autres: the dilemmas of unplanned conquest / Ramsay Cook -- New approaches to early modern representation / Steven Pincus -- Representative government: how sure a thing? / Robert Zaller |
| Summary |
This books examines the idea of representation and the institutional realities that shaped it in early modern Europe and European America. Contributors demonstrate how a country's history, society, and national experience dictate how representation is realized in political institutions, including Cortes, diets, parlements, parliaments, riksdags and reichstags. During the 16th and 17th centuries these assemblies were dissolved, recalled, reinvented, and reshaped by the experiences of absolute monarchy, civil war, and revolution. This collection reveals how these institutions were a critical component of state building |
| Notes |
Revisions of papers presented at a conference entitled Parliaments, Peoples, and Powers held at Yale University in 2005 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Representative government and representation -- History -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Politics and government
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Representative government and representation.
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 1492-1648 -- Congresses
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 1648-1789 -- Congresses
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United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775 -- Congresses
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Canada -- Politics and government -- 18th century -- Congresses
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Canada.
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Europe.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jansson, Maija
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| ISBN |
9780230603653 |
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0230603653 |
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