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Title Parliaments, nations, and identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660-1850 / edited by Julian Hoppit
Published Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : illustrations
Series UCL/Neale series on British history
UCL/Neale series on British history.
Contents Legislating for three kingdoms: how the Westminster parliament legislated for England, Scotland and Ireland, 1707-1830 (The 2001 Neale Lecture) / Joanna Innes -- Local identities and a national parliament, c.1688-1835 / Rosemary Sweet -- Church, parliament and national identity, c.1770-c.1830 / G.M. Ditchfield -- The landed interest and the national interest, 1660-1800 / Julian Hoppit -- Patriots and legislators: Irishmen and their parliaments, c.1689-c.1740 / David Hayton -- The Scots, the Westminster parliament, and the British state in the eighteenth century / Bob Harris -- Government, parliament and politics in Ireland, 1801-41 / Peter Jupp -- Parliament and international law in the eighteenth century / David Armitage -- Slaves, sati and sugar: constructing imperial identity through Liverpool petition struggles / Joshua Civin -- Colonial representation at Westminster, c.1800-65 / Miles Taylor
Summary The abolition of the Scottish and Irish Parliaments in 1707 and 1800 created a United Kingdom centred upon the Westminster legislature. This text discusses what this meant for the four nations involved, and how conceptions of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh identities were affected
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons -- History
SUBJECT Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons fast
Subject Legislative bodies -- Great Britain -- History
Legislative bodies -- Ireland -- History
European history.
Regional and national history.
History.
Humanities.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
HISTORY -- General.
Legislative bodies
Great Britain
Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hoppit, Julian.
ISBN 1417590416
9781417590414
9781847790514
1847790518
6610734232
9786610734238
128073423X
9781280734236