Time and Politics

Time and Politics
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780191057496
ISBN-13 : 0191057495
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Synopsis Time and Politics by : Ryan A. Vieira

Time and Politics is the first cultural and transnational history of modern procedural reform in the Westminster parliamentary system. The study centres on the nineteenth-century emergence of a desire to modernise and make more efficient the procedural rules of parliamentary law-making. Contrary to existing interpretations, which see this as a product of transformations in political structure and practice, this volume demonstrates how the evolution of Parliament's rules was structured by transformations within the wider culture of time. Ryan Vieira argues that the spread of an increasingly rigorous time discipline in concert with a growing consciousness of being modern worked to progressively erode the legitimacy of the historically developed rules of parliamentary debate and law-making, while simultaneously implanting new ways of judging the effectiveness of parliamentary institutions. By the 1880s, this process had transformed efficiency into the ultimate criteria of parliamentary effectiveness. Using the conceptual framework of the British world, Time and Politics demonstrates how this new understanding of parliamentary effectiveness was exported to the colonies of settlement through a series of communicative networks and provided colonial parliamentarians with the ability to imagine the inefficiencies of their own legislatures as part of a larger transnational problem. In making these arguments, this volume lays the groundwork for a new type of parliamentary history.

Imagining Ireland's Future, 1870-1914

Imagining Ireland's Future, 1870-1914
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9783031188251
ISBN-13 : 303118825X
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Synopsis Imagining Ireland's Future, 1870-1914 by : Pauline Collombier

This book attempts to delve into the connection between imagination and politics, and examines the many expectations and fears engendered by the Irish home rule debate. More specifically, it assesses the ways politicians, artists and writers in Ireland, Britain and its empire imagined how self-government would work in Ireland after the restitution of an Irish parliament. What did home rulers want? What were British supporters of Irish self-government willing to offer? What did home rule mean not only to those who advocated it but also to those who opposed it?

Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".]

Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the
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Total Pages : 1126
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ISBN-10 : NLS:V001488174
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Synopsis Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".] by : Public Free Libraries (Manchester)

Catalogue of Printed Books

Catalogue of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 610
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433000292080
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