{"product_id":"peers-and-politics-c-16501850-essays-in-honour-of-clyve-jones-9781119680611","title":"Peers and Politics c. 16501850  Essays in Honour","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 Written in tribute by friends and fellow historians of the LordsExamines aspects of the political activities and social lives of the peerage between c. 1650 and c. 1850, following up many of the themes re?ected in Clyve's own writingsA particular focus on the period between the Glorious Revolution and the fall of Walpole, with several articles on the Scottish contingent in the Upper HouseAlso 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407119196503,"sku":"9781119680611","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119680611.jpg?v=1730498245","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/peers-and-politics-c-16501850-essays-in-honour-of-clyve-jones-9781119680611","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}