Synopses & Reviews
A pioneering exploration of the phenomenon of the composite state in Eighteenth-century Europe. Employing a comparative approach, it combines the findings of new research on Ireland with broader syntheses of major composite states in Europe those of France, Austria and Poland-Lithuania.
Synopsis
Introduction: The Irish Parliament in European Context: a Representative Institution in a Composite State; D.W.Hayton & J.Kelly Money, Politics and Power: the Financial Legislation of the Irish Parliament; C.I.McGrath Sustaining a Confessional State: the Irish Parliament and Catholicism; J.Kelly Parliament and the Established Church: Reform and Reaction; D.W.Hayton Defending the Kingdom and Preserving the Constitution: Reform of the Militia; N.Garnham Legislating for Economic Development: Irish Fisheries as a Case-Study in the Limitations of 'improvement'; A.Sneddon 'Le roi demande, les tats consente': Royal Council, Provincial Estates and Parliament in Eighteenth-century Burgundy; J.Swann The Estates of Languedoc in Eighteenth-Century France: Administrative Expansion and Feudal Revitalisation; S.J.Miller Managing a Composite Monarchy: the Hungarian Diet and the Habsburgs in the Eighteenth Century; O.Szak ly Lawmaking in a Post-Composite State? The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century; R.Butterwick Conclusion; D.W.Hayton & J.Kelly
About the Author
D.W.HAYTON is Professor of Early Modern Irish and British History at Queens University Belfast, UK. He is the author of
Ruling Ireland 1685-1742 (Boydell, 2004), and many articles and essays on politics, religion and society in Ireland and Britain in the late Seventeenth and early Eighteenth centuries.
JAMES KELLY is Cregan Professor of History, and Head of the History Department at St Patricks College, Dublin City University, Ireland. His publications include Poynings Law and the making of law in Ireland, 1660-1800 (2007), and The Proceedings of the House of Lords, 1771-1800 (3 vols, 2008) and Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746-1818: Ultra-Protestant Ideologue (2009).
JOHN BERGIN is a Research Fellow at Queens University Belfast, UK. His research interests include the Irish Catholic and Quaker political lobbies in the eighteenth century, and Irish private divorce acts.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Irish Parliament in European Context: a Representative Institution in a Composite State--
D.W.Hayton &--
J.KellyMoney, Politics and Power: the Financial Legislation of the Irish Parliament--C.I.McGrath
Sustaining a Confessional State: the Irish Parliament and Catholicism--J.Kelly
Parliament and the Established Church: Reform and Reaction--D.W.Hayton
Defending the Kingdom and Preserving the Constitution: Reform of the Militia--N.Garnham
Legislating for Economic development: Irish Fisheries as a Case-Study in the Limitations of 'improvement'--A.Sneddon
'Le roi demande, les tats consente': Royal Council, Provincial Estates and Parlement in Eighteenth-century Burgundy--J.Swann
The Estates of Languedoc in Eighteenth-Century France: Administrative Expansion and Feudal Revitalisation--S.J.Miller
Managing a Composite Monarchy: the Hungarian Diet and the Habsburgs in the Eighteenth Century--O.Szakly
Lawmaking in a Post-Composite State? The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century--R.Butterwick
Conclusion--D.W.Hayton&--J.Kelly