- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
基本説明
Contributors demonstrate how a country's history society, and national experience dictate how representations is realized in political institutions, including Cortes, diets, parlements, parliaments, riksdags and reichstags.
Full Description
This book offers an examination of the idea of representation and the institutional realities that shaped it in early modern Europe and European America. Contributors demonstrate how a country's history, society, and national experience dictate how representation is realized in political institutions, including parliaments, riksdags and reichstags.
Contents
Introduction: Realities of Representation; M.Jansson PART I: ENGLAND The Representation of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain; H.T.Dickinson Parliament and the Idea of Political Accountability in Early Modern Britain; P.Seaward Boroughmongering, Biography, and the Reform of Parliament: James Boswell and the Earl of Lonsdale, Gordon Turnbull PART II: FRANCE The Unrepresentable French; D. Bell PART III: GERMANY Noble Corporations and Provincial Diets in the Ecclesiastical Principalities of the Holy Roman Empire; R.G. Asch PART IV: IRELAND Power, Politics and Parliament in Seventeenth-Century Ireland; J.Ohlmeyer PART V: SCANDINAVIA Repression and Representation: Political Culture in Early Modern Scandinavia; K.J.V. Jespersen PART VI: SPAIN An Unbalanced Representation: the Nature and Function of the Cortes of Castile in the Habsburg Period (1538-1698) - J.I.Fortea PART VII: EUROPEAN AMERICA Traditions of Consensual Governance in the Construction of State Authority in the Early Modern European Empires in America - J.P.Greene Governing a Colony pas commes les autres: the Dilemmas of Unplanned Conquest; R.Cook Conclusion: New Approaches to Early Modern Representation; S.Pincus Afterword: Representative Government: How Sure a Thing?; R.Zaller