{"product_id":"pressure-and-parliament-isbn-9781119489726","title":"Pressure and Parliament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume considers the varied forms of parliamentary pressure in the period between the civil wars and the advent of universal suffrage in the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe authors examine the ways in which parliament accepted, invited, or moulded channels of political pressure from those outside their ranks and outside the electoral process\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChapters highlight the technologies of growth of private and public petitioning, the pressure to act on new national and international questions, and the ways in which parliamentarians themselves orchestrated pressure\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a range of insights into the collaborative porousness of political pressures on parliament, not simply as the force of ‘pressure from without’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements                                                                                                               \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Contesting Interests: Rethinking Pressure, Parliament, Nation, and Empire (Richard Huzzey)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Politics of Pressure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Lowest Degree of Freedom’: The Right to Petition Parliament, 1640–1800 (Mark Knights)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Conversations with Parliament: Women and the Politics of Pressure in 19th-Century England (Sarah Richardson)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial and Economic Pressures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Petitions, Economic Legislation and Interest Groups in Britain, 1660–1800 (Julian Hoppit)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Social Reform and the Pressure of ‘Progress’ on Parliament, 1660–1914 (Lawrence Goldman)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntellectual and Spiritual Pressures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. From Estate under Pressure to Spiritual Pressure Group: The Bishops and Parliament (Stephen Taylor and Richard Huzzey)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Reforming Expectations: Parliamentary Pressure and Moral Reform (Amanda B. Moniz)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Too Clever by Half People’ and Parliament (William Whyte)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Huzzey\u003c\/b\u003e is a reader in history at Durham University. He has published \u003ci\u003eFreedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), and co-edited, with Robert Burroughs, a volume entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). Alongside Henry Miller, he leads the Leverhulme Trust research project ‘Re-thinking Petitions, Parliament, and People, 1780–1918’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume considers the varied forms of parliamentary pressure in the period between the civil wars and the advent of universal suffrage in the twentieth century. The authors examine the ways in which parliament accepted, invited, or moulded channels of political pressure from those outside their ranks and outside the electoral process. As such, the essays consider a variety of interests, identities, or ideas whose pressure might be exerted upon legislators. In particular, these chapters highlight the technologies of growth of private and public petitioning, the pressure to act on new national and international questions, and the ways in which parliamentarians themselves orchestrated pressure. The result is a range of insights into the collaborative porousness of political pressures on parliament, not simply as the force of ‘pressure from without’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989843067109,"sku":"NP9781119489726","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119489726.jpg?v=1761785654","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/pressure-and-parliament-isbn-9781119489726","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}