Parliament and the Atlantic empire
By: edited by Philip Lawson.
Contributors: Lawson, Philip.; Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Great Britain. -- Parliament.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.; Great Britain -- Administration.
Description: "Since the loss of the American colonies in 1783, the history of Westminster and Colonial Parliaments has been something of a lost child in the British-Atlantic past. This collection of papers examines the evolution of colonial legislatures in the thirteen American colonies, Quebec and the British West Indies, and the part played by Westminster in overseeing their growth and constitutional development. A more global view is taken of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English-speaking Atlantic world and parliamentary and legislative concerns are brought out of their parochial confinement. This is a special book issue published as part of the Parliamentary History journal, volume 14 part 1."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Published for The Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust.

Special issue.

Includes bibliographical references and index.