Patrick Little, David L. Smith

Parliaments and Politics During the Cromwellian Protectorate

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Produktbeschreibung

This ground-breaking volume fills a major historiographical gap by providing the first detailed book-length study of the period of the Cromwellian Protectorate from December 1653 to May 1659. The study is very broad in its scope, covering topics as diverse as the British and Irish dimensions of the Protectorate Parliaments, the political and social nature of factions, problems of management, the legal and judicial aspects of Parliament's functions, foreign policy and the nature of the parliamentary franchise and elections in this period. In its wide-ranging analysis of Parliaments and politics throughout the Protectorate the book also examines both Lord Protectors, all three Protectorate Parliaments and the reasons why Oliver and Richard Cromwell were never able to achieve a stable working relationship with any Parliament. Its chronological coverage extends to the demise of the Protectorate in May 1659. This comprehensive account will appeal to historians of early modern British political history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• 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.