Description
Featuring contributions from leading scholars of history, law and politics, this path-breaking work traces the development of the United Kingdom's constitution from Anglo-Saxon times and explores its role in the creation, exercise and control of public power. Essays in Volume Two, entitled 'The Changing Constitution', examine the development of the constitution from the departure of the Romans up to the present day and beyond. Together, the two volumes form the first, wide-ranging history of the constitution to be published for more than 50 years. By its cross-disciplinary approach, taking account of the latest legal, political and historical scholarship on the constitution, it fills a large gap in the literature of the constitution, and in political thought and British history.
The second volume of a pioneering constitutional history of the United Kingdom, written by an international team of experts.
About the Author
Peter Cane has written widely in areas of public law, private law and legal theory. He is co-editor (with Lisa Ford and Mark McMillan) of The Cambridge Legal History of Australia and author of Controlling Administrative Power: An Historical Comparison (2016). He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of the Australian National University. H. Kumarasingham teaches at the University of Edinburgh. His work and interests cover the history and politics of the United Kingdom, the late British Empire and the Commonwealth. His publications include the collections Constitution-Maker: Selected Writings of Sir Ivor Jennings (2015) and Viceregalism: The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth (2020). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Reviews
'[T]his is a much-needed update to constitutional history and is relevant to students and scholars in many fields. Recommended.' M. K. Thompson, Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9781009277099
Author Peter Cane
Format Hardback
Page Count 505
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1040g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 33mm
The second volume of a pioneering constitutional history of the United Kingdom, written by an international team of experts.
About the Author
Peter Cane has written widely in areas of public law, private law and legal theory. He is co-editor (with Lisa Ford and Mark McMillan) of The Cambridge Legal History of Australia and author of Controlling Administrative Power: An Historical Comparison (2016). He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of the Australian National University. H. Kumarasingham teaches at the University of Edinburgh. His work and interests cover the history and politics of the United Kingdom, the late British Empire and the Commonwealth. His publications include the collections Constitution-Maker: Selected Writings of Sir Ivor Jennings (2015) and Viceregalism: The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth (2020). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Reviews
'[T]his is a much-needed update to constitutional history and is relevant to students and scholars in many fields. Recommended.' M. K. Thompson, Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9781009277099
Author Peter Cane
Format Hardback
Page Count 505
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1040g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 33mm
