Patrick Little, David L. Smith (Cambridge Selwyn College)

Parliaments and Politics During the Cromwellian Protectorate

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a detailed book-length study of the period of the Cromwellian Protectorate from December 1653 to its demise in May 1659. It provides a wide-ranging analysis of Parliaments and politics throughout the Protectorate which will appeal to historians of early modern British political history.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9780521838672
• ISBN-10: 0521838673
• Artikelnr.: 23072589

Autorenporträt

Patrick Little is a Lifetime member of the Canadian Professional Golfer's Association (CPGA). Born in Edmonton and raised in the Canadian Armed Forces, he's now retired, spending moments as he did in youth...golfing. He plays and practices regularly near Nelson in the Kootenays of British Columbia, Canada...annually attempting to shoot his age. He lives in Procter with Jackie and their Pomeranian named Lily. This is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: historiography and sources
2. Parliament and the paper constitutions
3. Elections
4. Exclusions
5. Factional politics and parliamentary management
6. Oliver Cromwell and Parliaments
7. Richard Cromwell and Parliaments
8. Law reform, judicature and the Other House
9. Religious reform
10. Representation and taxation in England and Wales
11. Parliament and foreign policy
12. Irish and Scottish affairs
13. Conclusion
Appendix 1. Members excluded from the Second Protectorate Parliament
Appendix 2. The Remonstrance of 23 February 1657.