This volume considers the varied forms of parliamentary pressure in the period between the civil wars and the advent of universal suffrage in the twentieth century. The authors examine the ways in which parliament accepted, invited, or moulded channels of political pressure from those outside their ranks and outside the electoral process Chapters highlight the technologies of growth of private and public petitioning, the pressure to act on new national and international questions, and the ways in which parliamentarians themselves orchestrated pressure Includes a range of insights into the collaborative porousness of political pressures on parliament, not simply as the force of pressure from without INDICE: List of Illustrations .Notes on Contributors .Acknowledgements .Introduction .Richard Huzzey, Contesting Interests: Rethinking Pressure, Parliament, Nation, and Empire .The Politics of Pressure .Mark Knights, The Lowest Degree of Freedom : The Right to Petition Parliament, 1640 1800 .Sarah Richardson, Conversations with Parliament: Women and the Politics of Pressure in 19th–Century England .Social and Economic Pressures .Julian Hoppit, Petitions, Economic Legislation and Interest Groups in Britain, 1660 1800 .Lawrence Goldman, Social Reform and the Pressure of Progress on Parliament, 1660 1914 .Intellectual and Spiritual Pressures .Stephen Taylor and Richard Huzzey, From Estate under Pressure to Spiritual Pressure Group: The Bishops and Parliament .Amanda B. Moniz, Reforming Expectations: Parliamentary Pressure and Moral Reform .William Whyte, The Too Clever by Half People and Parliament .Index
- ISBN: 978-1-119-48972-6
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 168
- Fecha Publicación: 04/05/2018
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés