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Alex Beeton - Parliament and politics in revolutionary Britain and Ireland, 1640–60, Inbunden

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Del i serien Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

Parliament and politics in revolutionary Britain and Ireland, 1640–60

Av Alex Beeton

1729 kr

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Parliament and politics in revolutionary Britain and Ireland, 1640–60 considerably advances our understanding of Parliament’s place in seventeenth-century political culture and of the political practices which informed British and Irish political life between 1640 and 1660. Ten scholars offer a range of innovative perspectives on Parliament in the revolutionary era. Each chapter provides important historiographical interventions which cumulatively construct a new perspective on Parliament during the most tumultuous period of its history. Read together, the contributions to this volume demonstrate the benefits of returning to the study of parliamentary history with the lessons of recent scholarship in mind while also showing the value of reincorporating a focus on the institution of Parliament into discussions of the mid-seventeenth century.
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Alex Beeton is Research Fellow at the History of Parliament Trust

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'Alex Beeton has brought together an impressive group of historians to consider changing perceptions of an institution which was itself undergoing rapid change, and to explore how its evolving internal workings shaped its interactions with those hoping to use it within England and beyond. Each of the essays is important in itself, and together they make an important intervention in the field.'Michael Braddick, University of Oxford'Adopting an expansive approach to ‘institutional’ history, this rich volume explores how, amid revolutionary upheaval, Parliament’s powers were enhanced, harnessed, wielded and manipulated, by those within its walls as well as those outside its doors. Its studies of parliamentary politics and processes certainly reveal controversy, contestation and critique, not least as a result of factionalism, but what emerges very powerfully are the bold hopes and aims that many contemporaries had about what it might do, and what could be achieved with its help. Not all of these hopes were realised, but readers can be left in little doubt about the vitality of parliamentary practice and the centrality of Parliament to the contemporary political imagination.'Jason Peacey, University College London'In all, this is a pioneering and ambitious collection that will transform our understanding of Parliament during the revolutionary decades that had a crucial impact on the history of Parliament and of the British Isles and Ireland in general.' Ann Hughes, Keele University

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