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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Chris R Kyle; Jason Peacey |
| ISBN: | 0851158749 9780851158747 |
| OCLC Number: | 49871670 |
| Description: | xi, 190 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 'Under cover of so much coming and going': public access to Parliament and the political process in early modern England / Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey -- '[B]y committinge of a bill of the howse allowed of the bodie thereof'. Tudor parliamentary legislative committees: development, purposes, value and problems, 1510-1601 / Michael A.R. Graves -- Attendance, apathy and order? Parliamentary committees in early Stuart England / Chris R. Kyle -- Politics, accounts and propaganda in the Long Parliament / Jason Peacey -- Ireland at Westminster: the Long Parliament's Irish committees, 1641-1647 / Robert Armstrong -- Triumph of oligarchy: the management of war and the Committee of Both Kingdoms, 1644-1645 / John Adamson -- Foundation of the Council of State / Sean Kelsey -- Cavalier Parliament, the 1667 accounts commission and the idea of accountability / Paul Seaward -- Public space, private affairs: committees, petitions and lobbies in the early modern English parliament / David Dean. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey. |
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The volume has great strengths...all the contributions are characterised by a degree of archival rigour... A volume of high quality and importance. ALBION This collection provides a great deal of solid, well-researched and generally well-argued material on its subject. There is not one essay that is below par, there is evidence that the editors have worked hard to impose cohesion, and (...) the volume suggests avenues for further enquiry. PARLIAMENTS, ESTATES & REPRESENTATION Read more...
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