Description
Book SynopsisThis book takes a fresh and thorough look at the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British Parliament, in the critical period from 1811 to 1846.
Trade Review"This book is written in a confident and commanding style by a historian obviously at the top of his form. The House of Lords is a monumentally understudied and under-evaluated part of Britain's political polity, and Davis shows us the prime importance of the role the Lords actually played in this period in setting the agenda for the political nation." -- James Sack * University of Illinois at Chicago *
Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. A King, a Prince, and Civil and Religious Liberty 2. The Regency Crisis 3. The Catholic Question 4. The Ways Begin to Part 5. The Parting of the Ways 6. Peterloo and Queen Caroline 7.Efforts at Emancipation, 1819-1825 8. Questionable Theories and Practical Politics in the 1820s 9. Lansdowne and Canning 10. The Constitutional Revolution Begins, 1828-1829 11. Reform 12. Resurgence 13. Cooperation and Confrontation 14. The Municipal Corporations Act 15. Irish Questions 16. Discontented Conservatives 17. The Jamaican Constitution and the Education Controversy 18. Wellington, Peel, and the Triumph of the Conservatives 19. A New Corn Law and Lord Ashley's Mines Bill 20. Religious Conflicts Begin, 1843 21. The Dissenters Chapels Act, the Factory Act, and the Welsh Bishops Bill 22. The Maynooth Grant, 1845 23. Corn Law Repeal, 1845-46 Conclusion Abbreviations in notes Notes Index
