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A political history of the House of Lords, 1811-1846 : from the regency to corn law repeal / Richard W. Davis.
LIBRA JN621 .D38 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Richard W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords--History--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.
- History.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--19th century.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 382 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- This book takes a fresh and thorough look at the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British Parliament, in the critical period from 1811 to 1846.
- Contents:
- A king, a prince, and civil and religious liberty
- The regency crisis
- The Catholic question
- The ways begin to part
- The parting of the ways
- Peterloo and Queen Caroline
- Efforts at emancipation, 1819-1825
- Questionable theories and practical politics in the 1820s
- Lansdowne and Canning
- The constitutional revolution begins, 1828-1829
- Reform
- Resurgence
- Cooperation and confrontation
- The Municipal Corporations Act
- Irish questions
- Discontented conservatives
- The Jamaican constitution and the education controversy
- Wellington, Peel, and the triumph of the conservatives
- A new corn law and Lord Ashley's mines bill
- Religious conflicts begin, 1843
- The dissenters chapels act, the factory Act, and the Welsh bishops bill
- The Maynooth grant, 1845
- Corn law repeal, 1845-46.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-370) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804757638
- 0804757631
- OCLC:
- 85783343
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