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Realities of representation : state building in early modern Europe and European America / edited by Maija Jansson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Representative government and representation.
- History.
- Politics and government.
- Europe--Politics and government--1492-1648--Congresses.
- Europe.
- Europe--Politics and government--1648-1789--Congresses.
- United States--Politics and government--To 1775--Congresses.
- United States.
- Canada--Politics and government--18th century--Congresses.
- Canada.
- Representative government and representation--History--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 237 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Realities of Representation: State Building in Early Modern Europe and European America / Maija Jansson 1
- Early Modern Europe
- England
- 1 The Representation of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain / H.T. Dickinson 19
- 2 Parliament and the Idea of Political Accountability in Early Modern Britain / Paul Seaward 45
- 3 Boroughmongering, Biography, and the Reform of Parliament: James Boswell and the Earl of Lonsdale / Gordon Turnbull 63
- France
- 4 The Unrepresentable French? / David A. Bell 75
- Germany
- 5 Noble Corporations and Provincial Diets in the Ecclesiastical Principalities of the Holy Roman Empire ca. 1648-1802 / Ronald G. Asch 93
- Ireland
- 6 Power, Politics and Parliament in Seventeenth-Century / Jane Ohlmeyer 113
- Scandinavia
- 7 Repression and Representation: Political Culture in Early Modern Scandinavia / Knud J.V. Jespersen 113
- Spain
- 8 An Unbalanced Representation: The Nature and Functions of the Cortes of Castile in the Habsburg Period (1538-1698) / Jose Ignacio Fortea Perez 149
- European America
- 9 Traditions of Consensual Governance in the Construction of State Authority in the Early Modern Empires in America / Jack P. Greene 171
- 10 Governing a Colony pas commes les autres: The Dilemmas of Unplanned Conquest / Ramsay Cook 187
- New Approaches to Early Modern Representation / Steven Pincus 203
- Representative Government: How Sure a Thing? / Robert Zaller 215.
- Notes:
- Revisions of papers presented at a conference entitled Parliaments, Peoples, and Powers held at Yale University in 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403975345
- 9781403975348
- OCLC:
- 70668915
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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