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

Title
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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Description
viii, 382 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Great Britain > Politics and government > 19th century
  • Great Britain. House of Lords > History > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-370) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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, 1845-1846.
ISBN
  • 9780804757638 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804757631 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007008535