{"product_id":"peers-and-politics-c-1650-1850-isbn-9781119680611","title":"Peers and Politics, c. 1650 - 1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays in honour of Clyve Jones who has made an incomparable contribution to our understanding of the history of the Westminster house of lords – its politics, procedures and business – and to the history of the English and Scottish peerage more generally\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten in tribute by friends and fellow historians of the Lords\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines aspects of the political activities and social lives of the peerage between c. 1650 and c. 1850, following up many of the themes reflected in Clyve’s own writings\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA particular focus on the period between the Glorious Revolution and the fall of Walpole, with several articles on the Scottish contingent in the Upper House\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAlso stretches well into the 19th century with subjects discussed not only parliamentary management, but the electioneering activities of aristocratic magnates, and the contribution of aristocratic women to the political world of late Stuart England\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD.W.Hayton,Clyve Jones and Parliamentary History 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJason Peacey,The Duke’s Parrot:The Earl of Leicester,the King’s Children and the English Revolution 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrances Harris, The ‘Little Palaces’ of St James’s: Ladies, Lords, and Political Association under the later Stuarts 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGraham Townend,Republicans,Unionists and Jacobites:The 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and the Restoration of the British Parliament 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDaniel Szechi,Playing with Fire:The 4th Duke of Hamilton’s Jacobite Politics and the Union 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Littleton,‘’Tis Not in the Power of Words to Tell What My Heart Feels in Favour of You’;or,What the Ossulston Diary Does Not Reveal 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD.W.Hayton,Party and Management in the Irish House of Lords,1713–15 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStuart Handley, The Members of the House of Lords and the Hanoverian Succession 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobin Eagles, ‘A Reward for so Meritorious an Action’? Lord Hervey’s Summons to the House of Lords and Walpole’s Management of the Upper Chamber (1727–42) 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Connors and Ben Gilding, ‘Hereditary Guardians of the Nation’: The House of Lords and the East India Company in the Age of the American Revolution 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard A. Gaunt, A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Beckett,Fixing the Membership of the Lords and Commons:The Case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham By-Election,1834 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography of the Published Works of Clyve Jones 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard A. Gaunt\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor in modern British history at the University of Nottingham and the current editor of \u003ci\u003eParliamentary History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eD. W. Hayton\u003c\/b\u003e is emeritus professor of history at Queen’s University, Belfast. He was joint-editor of \u003ci\u003eParliamentary History\u003c\/i\u003e between 2015 and 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring a long career of research and publication in 17th- and 18th-century parliamentary history Clyve Jones has made an incomparable contribution to our understanding of the history of the Westminster house of lords – its politics, procedures and business – and to the history of the English and Scottish peerage more generally. This volume of essays, written in tribute by friends and fellow historians of the Lords, examines aspects of the political activities and social lives of the peerage between c. 1650 and c. 1850, following up many of the themes reflected in Clyve’s own writings. There is a particular focus on the period between the Glorious Revolution and the fall of Walpole, with several articles on the Scottish contingent in the Upper House, of which he has made a particular study, but the period covered stretches well into the 19th century and the subjects discussed include not only parliamentary management, but the electioneering activities of aristocratic magnates, and the contribution of aristocratic women to the political world of late Stuart England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989759115493,"sku":"NP9781119680611","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119680611.jpg?v=1761785380","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/peers-and-politics-c-1650-1850-isbn-9781119680611","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}