Realities of Representation: State Building in Early Modern Europe and European America

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction Realities of Representation: State Building in Early Modern Europe and European America....Pages 1-17
The Representation of The People in Eighteenth-Century Britain....Pages 19-44
Parliament and the Idea of Political Accountability in Early Modern Britain....Pages 45-62
Boroughmongering, Biography, and the Reform of Parliament: James Boswell and the Earl of Lonsdale....Pages 63-73
The Unrepresentable French?....Pages 75-92
Noble Corporations and Provincial Diets in the Ecclesiastical Principalities of the Holy Roman Empire Ca. 1648–1802....Pages 93-111
Power, Politics and Parliament in Seventeenth-Century Ireland....Pages 113-132
Repression And Representation: Political Culture In Early Modern Scandinavia....Pages 133-147
An Unbalanced Representation: The Nature and Functions of The Cortes of Castile in The Habsburg Period (1538–1698)....Pages 149-169
Traditions of Consensual Governance in the Construction of State Authority in the Early Modern Empires in America....Pages 171-186
Governing a Colony Pas Commes Les Autres: The Dilemmas of Unplanned Conquest....Pages 187-201
Conclusion New Approaches to Early Modern Representation....Pages 203-214
Afterword Representative Government: How Sure a Thing?....Pages 215-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-237