Realities of representation [electronic resource] : 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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Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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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.