The eighteenth-century composite state : representative institutions in Ireland and Europe, 1689-1800

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The eighteenth-century composite state : representative institutions in Ireland and Europe, 1689-1800

edited by D.W. Hayton, James Kelly and John Bergin

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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A pioneering exploration of the phenomenon of the composite state in Eighteenth-century Europe. Employing a comparative approach, it combines the findings of new research on Ireland with broader syntheses of major composite states in Europe - those of France, Austria and Poland-Lithuania.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: The Irish Parliament in European Context: a Representative Institution in a Composite State
  • D.W.Hayton & J.Kelly Money, Politics and Power: the Financial Legislation of the Irish Parliament
  • C.I.McGrath Sustaining a Confessional State: the Irish Parliament and Catholicism
  • J.Kelly Parliament and the Established Church: Reform and Reaction
  • D.W.Hayton Defending the Kingdom and Preserving the Constitution: Reform of the Militia
  • N.Garnham Legislating for Economic Development: Irish Fisheries as a Case-Study in the Limitations of 'improvement'
  • A.Sneddon 'Le roi demande, les etats consente': Royal Council, Provincial Estates and Parliament in Eighteenth-century Burgundy
  • J.Swann The Estates of Languedoc in Eighteenth-Century France: Administrative Expansion and Feudal Revitalisation
  • S.J.Miller Managing a Composite Monarchy: the Hungarian Diet and the Habsburgs in the Eighteenth Century
  • O.Szakaly Lawmaking in a Post-Composite State? The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century
  • R.Butterwick Conclusion
  • D.W.Hayton & J.Kelly

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