Time and politics : parliament and the culture of modernity in Britain and the British world /


Ryan A. Vieira.
Bok Engelsk 2015 · History.
Omfang
VI, 199 pages ;
Opplysninger
Formerly CIP.. - Introduction : efficiency and the modernization of parliamentary procedure -- The claim to represent and the competition for parliamentary time -- Parliament and time in the early to mid-nineteenth century -- From the grand inquest of the nation to the parliamentary machine -- Parliament, time, and the transnational parliamentary modernity of the British world.. - Centered on the 19th-century desire to modernize and make procedural rules more efficient, demonstrates how the evolution was structured by transformations within the wider culture of time. Shows how the new understanding of parliamentary effectiveness was exported to the colonies, using case studies from New South Wales and Canada.
Emner
Sjanger
History. : (OCoLC)fst01411628
Geografisk emneord
Dewey
ISBN
0198737548. - 9780198737544

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