Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Includes information from the Norman conquest through the 1st session of the 2d Parliament.
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Includes information from the Norman conquest through the 1st session of the 2d Parliament.
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England
Author: William CobbettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066, to the Year 1803, from which Last-mentioned Epoch it is Continued Downwards in the Work Entitled, "Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates" ...
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066, to the Year 1803, from which Last-mentioned Epoch it is Continued Downwards in the Work Entitled, "Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates" ...
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: 1794-1795
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Disciplining the Empire
Author: Sarah KinkelPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674985311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
“Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves,” goes the popular lyric. The fact that the British built the world’s greatest empire on the basis of sea power has led many to assume that the Royal Navy’s place in British life was unchallenged. Yet, as Sarah Kinkel shows, the Navy was the subject of bitter political debate. The rise of British naval power was neither inevitable nor unquestioned: it was the outcome of fierce battles over the shape of Britain’s empire and the bonds of political authority. Disciplining the Empire explains why the Navy became divisive within Anglo-imperial society even though it was also successful in war. The eighteenth century witnessed the global expansion of British imperial rule, the emergence of new forms of political radicalism, and the fracturing of the British Atlantic in a civil war. The Navy was at the center of these developments. Advocates of a more strictly governed, centralized empire deliberately reshaped the Navy into a disciplined and hierarchical force which they hoped would win battles but also help control imperial populations. When these newly professionalized sea officers were sent to the front lines of trade policing in North America during the 1760s, opponents saw it as an extension of executive power and military authority over civilians—and thus proof of constitutional corruption at home. The Navy was one among many battlefields where eighteenth-century British subjects struggled to reconcile their debates over liberty and anarchy, and determine whether the empire would be ruled from Parliament down or the people up.
Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: 1788-1789
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
British and American Foundings of Parliamentary Science, 1774–1801
Author: Peter J. AschenbrennerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317172175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Upon declaring independence from Britain in July 1776, the United States Congress urgently needed to establish its credentials as a legitimate government that could credibly challenge the claims of the British Crown. In large measure this legitimacy rested upon setting in place the procedural and legal structures upon which all claims of governmental authority rest. In this book, Aschenbrenner explores the ways in which the nascent United States rapidly built up a system of parliamentary procedure that borrowed heavily from the British government it sought to replace. In particular, he looks at how, over the course of twenty-five years, Thomas Jefferson drew upon the writings of the Chief Clerk of the British Parliament, John Hatsell, to frame and codify American parliamentary procedures. Published in 1801, Jefferson’s Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States presents rules, instances, citations and commentary as modern readers would expect them to appear, quoting Hatsell and other British authorities numerous times. If the two nations suffered any unpleasant relations in the First War for American Independence - Aschenbrenner concludes - one would be hard pressed to detect it from Jefferson’s Manual. Indeed, direct comparison of the House of Commons and the Continental Congress shows remarkable similarities between the ambitions of the two institutions as they both struggled to adapt their political processes to meet the changing national and international circumstances of the late-eighteenth century.