political history of the House of Lords, 1811-1846, from the regency to corn law repeal
By: Richard W. Davis.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804757638
Subjects: Great Britain. -- Parliament. -- House of Lords -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A king, a prince, and civil and religious liberty; title: The regency crisis; title: the Catholic question; title: The ways begin to part; title: the parting of the ways; title: Peterloo and Queen Caroline; title: Efforts at emancipation, 1819-1825; title: Questionable theories and practical politics in the 1820s; title: Lansdowne and Canning; title: The constitutional revolution begins, 1828-1829; title: Reform; title: Resurgence; title: Cooperation and confrontation; title: The Municipal Corporations Act; title: Irish questions; title: Discontented conservatives; title: The Jamaican constitution and the education controversy; title: Wellington, Peel, and the triumph of the conservatives; title: A new corn law and Lord Ashley's mines bill; title: Religious conflicts begin, 1843; title: The dissenters chapels act, the factory Act, and the Welsh bishops bill; title: The Maynooth grant, 1845; title: Corn law repeal, 1845-46.