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Realities of Representation

State Building in Early Modern Europe and European America

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Maija Jansson

    1. Department of History, Yale Center for Parliamentary History, Yale, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction Realities of Representation: State Building in Early Modern Europe and European America

    • Maija Jansson
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Representation of The People in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    • H. T. Dickinson
    Pages 19-44

  4. Parliament and the Idea of Political Accountability in Early Modern Britain

    • Paul Seaward
    Pages 45-62

  5. Boroughmongering, Biography, and the Reform of Parliament: James Boswell and the Earl of Lonsdale

    • Gordon Turnbull
    Pages 63-73

  6. The Unrepresentable French?

    • David A. Bell
    Pages 75-92

  7. Noble Corporations and Provincial Diets in the Ecclesiastical Principalities of the Holy Roman Empire Ca. 1648–1802

    • Ronald G. Asch
    Pages 93-111

  8. Power, Politics and Parliament in Seventeenth-Century Ireland

    • Jane Ohlmeyer
    Pages 113-132

  9. Repression And Representation: Political Culture In Early Modern Scandinavia

    • Knud J. V. Jespersen
    Pages 133-147

  10. An Unbalanced Representation: The Nature and Functions of The Cortes of Castile in The Habsburg Period (1538–1698)

    • José Ignacio Fortea Pérez
    Pages 149-169

  11. Traditions of Consensual Governance in the Construction of State Authority in the Early Modern Empires in America

    • Jack P. Greene
    Pages 171-186

  12. Governing a Colony Pas Commes Les Autres: The Dilemmas of Unplanned Conquest

    • Ramsay Cook
    Pages 187-201

  13. Conclusion New Approaches to Early Modern Representation

    • Steven Pincus
    Pages 203-214

  14. Afterword Representative Government: How Sure a Thing?

    • Robert Zaller
    Pages 215-224

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 225-237
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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.

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  • Department of History, Yale Center for Parliamentary History, Yale, USA

    Maija Jansson

About the editor

MAIJA JANSSON is Director of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History and teaches in the Yale University History Department, USA.

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