| Contents |
Modern Europe and European America / Maija Jansson -- The representation of the people in eighteenth-century Britain / H.T. Dickinson -- Parliament and the idea of political accountability in early modern Britain / Paul Seaward -- Boroughmongering, biography, and the reform of Parliament: James Boswell and the Earl of Lonsdale / Gordon Turnbull -- The unpresentable French? / David A. Bell -- Noble corporation and provincial diets in the ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire ca. 1648-1802 / Ronald G. Asch -- Power, politics and parliament in seventeenth century Ireland / Jane Ohlmeyer -- Repression and representation: political culture in early modern Scandinavia / Knud J.V. Jespersen -- An unbalanced representation: the nature and functions of the Cortes of Castile in the Habsburg period (1538-1698) / Jose Ignacio Fortea Perez -- Traditions of consensual governance in the construction of state authority in the early modern empires in America / Jack P. Greene -- Governing a colony pas commes les autres: the dilemmas of unplanned conquest / Ramsay Cook -- New approaches to early modern representation / Steven Pincus -- Representative government: how sure a thing? / Robert Zaller. |
| General note | Revisions of papers presented at a conference entitled Parliaments, Peoples, and Powers held at Yale University in 2005. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006050340 |
| ISBN | 1403975345 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781403975348 (alk. paper) |
