{"product_id":"a-political-history-of-the-house-of-lords-18111846-9780804757638","title":"A Political History of the House of Lords","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  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","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405571563863,"sku":"9780804757638","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804757638.jpg?v=1730492877","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-political-history-of-the-house-of-lords-18111846-9780804757638","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}