Description
This volume considers the varied forms of parliamentary pressure in the period between the civil wars and the advent of universal suffrage in the twentieth century.
- The authors examine the ways in which parliament accepted, invited, or moulded channels of political pressure from those outside their ranks and outside the electoral process
- Chapters highlight the technologies of growth of private and public petitioning, the pressure to act on new national and international questions, and the ways in which parliamentarians themselves orchestrated pressure
- Includes a range of insights into the collaborative porousness of political pressures on parliament, not simply as the force of 'pressure from without'
About the Author
Richard Huzzey is a reader in history at Durham University. He has published Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain (2012), and co-edited, with Robert Burroughs, a volume entitled The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2015). Alongside Henry Miller, he leads the Leverhulme Trust research project 'Re-thinking Petitions, Parliament, and People, 1780-1918'.
Book Information
ISBN 9781119489726
Author Richard Huzzey
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 238g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 8mm
