Realities of representation : state building in early modern Europe and European America

Realities of representation : state building in early modern Europe and European America / edited by Maija Jansson.

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, includi...

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Other Authors: Jansson, Maija
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
To 1799
Representative government and representation > History > Congresses.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Politics and government
Representative government and representation
Europe > Politics and government > 1492-1648 > Congresses.
Europe > Politics and government > 1648-1789 > Congresses.
United States > Politics and government > To 1775 > Congresses.
Canada > Politics and government > 18th century > Congresses.
Canada
Europe
United States
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of 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.

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