A full and comprehensive assessment of the place of the 18th-century peerage and House of Lords.
Uses statistical and anecdotal evidence to create a variegated portrait of the nobility, its political outlook, and the ways in which the nobility's multifarious roles combined to shape its members' conduct as peers of parliament
Challenges the assumption that the Lords remained a creature of the crown and demonstrates that peers and bishops were useful, informed, and broadly connected legislators
Incorporates the results of recent research on the role of ideology...
A full and comprehensive assessment of the place of the 18th-century peerage and House of Lords.
The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788-1795, offers a much-needed accounting of how slavery supporters in Britain managed to preserve the slave trade in Jamaica during the last two decades of the 18th century.
Represents the best single source on the efforts in Britain to prevent the abolition of the slave trade in Jamaica in the late 18th century
Offers background context for Fuller's letters and provides new information about the effectiveness of the West India interest in Britain's houses of parliament
Provides the fullest accounting of the...
The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788-1795, offers a much-needed accounting of how slavery supporters in Britain managed to preserve th...
