Contesting interests : rethinking pressure, Parliament, nation, and empire / Richard Huzzey, page 1 -- 'The lowest degree of freedom' : the right to petition Parliament, 1640-1800 / Mark Knights, page 18 -- Conversations with Parliament : Women and the politics of pressure in 19th century England / Sarah Richardson, page 35 -- Petitions, economic legislation and interest groups in Britain, 1660-1800 / Julian Hoppit, page 52 -- Social reform and the pressure of 'progress' on Parliament, 1660-1914 / Lawrence Goldman, page 72 -- From estate under pressure to spiritual pressure group : the bishops and Parliament / Stephen Taylor and Richard Huzzey, page 89 -- Reforming expectations : parliamentary pressure and moral reform / Amanda B. Moniz, page 102 -- 'The too clever by half people' and Parliament / William Whyte, page 119.
Summary:
"This volume considers the varied forms of parliamentary pressure in the period between the civil wars and the advent of universal suffrage in the 20th century. The authors examine the ways in which parliament accepted, invited, or modified channels of political pressure from those outside their ranks and outside the electoral process. As such, the essays consider a variety of interests, identities, or ideas whose pressure might be exerted upon legislators. In particular, these essays highlight the technologies of growth of private and public petitioning, the pressure to act on new national and international questions, and the ways in which parliamentarians themselves orchestrated pressure. The result is a range of insights into the collaborative porousness of political pressure on parliament, not simply as the force of 'pressure from without'" -- Details from publisher.
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