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A political history of the House of Lords, 1811-1846 : from the regency to corn law repeal

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A political history of the House of Lords, 1811-1846 : from the regency to corn law repeal / Richard W. Davis.

Author

Davis, Richard W.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.

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viii, 382 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

Great Britain > Parliament > House of Lords > History > 19th century
Great Britain > Politics and government > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-370) and index.

Contents

A king, a prince, and civil and religious liberty -- The regency crisis -- The Catholic question -- The ways begin to part -- The parting of the ways -- Peterloo and Queen Caroline -- Efforts at emancipation, 1819-1825 -- Questionable theories and practical politics in the 1820s -- Lansdowne and Canning -- The constitutional revolution begins, 1828-1829 -- Reform -- Resurgence -- Cooperation and confrontation -- The Municipal Corporations Act -- Irish questions -- Discontented conservatives -- The Jamaican constitution and the education controversy -- Wellington, Peel, and the triumph of the conservatives -- A new corn law and Lord Ashley's mines bill -- Religious conflicts begin, 1843 -- The dissenters chapels act, the factory Act, and the Welsh bishops bill -- The Maynooth grant, 1845 -- Corn law repeal, 1845-46.

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