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
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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