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Time and politics : parliament and the culture of modernity in Britain and the British world / Ryan A. Vieira.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vieira, Ryan A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Parliament--History--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Time--Social aspects--Great Britain--19th century.
- Time.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--19th century.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A cultural and transnational history of modern procedural reform in the Westminster parliamentary system in the 19th century, explaining how and why governments in Britain and the British world gained control over parliament through the application of new concepts of time and efficiency.
- Contents:
- Introduction : efficiency and the modernization of parliamentary procedure
- The claim to represent and the competition for parliamentary time
- Parliament and time in the early to mid-nineteenth century
- From the grand inquest of the nation to the parliamentary machine
- Parliament, time, and the transnational parliamentary modernity of the British world.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-180096-1
- 0-19-105749-5
- OCLC:
- 912325167
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