Honour, Interest and Power: An Illustrated History of the House of Lords, 1660-1715

Herausgeber: Paley, Ruth; Davey, Jennifer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The House of Lords presented the stage on which some of the critical confrontations in English and British constitutional and political history were played out in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Published for the History of Parliament Trust.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 183mm x 241mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9781843835769
• ISBN-10: 1843835762
• Artikelnr.: 29954906

Autorenporträt

Ruth Paley, Paul Seaward

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Patrick Cormack, the Chairman of the History of Parliament
Trust 'The ancient landmark': the House of Lords in the Constitutional
Landscape The Peerage: recruitment, extinction and the inflation of honours
Getting and spending The Lords in Parliament Honour, Power and Privilege
The House of Lords at work The business of the House Interest: the lords
and the nation Epilogue: The Hanoverian succession and the 1719 peerage
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