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Parliament at work : parliamentary committees, political power, and public access in early modern England
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Parliament at work : parliamentary committees, political power, and public access in early modern England

Author: Chris R Kyle; Jason Peacey
Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The political, social and economic changes which overtook England in the early seventeenth century forced Parliament to adapt from a medieval institution into one with authority over all facets of  Read more...

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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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