Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century

by Jeremy Black and Black Jeremy

Book Overview

Drawing on a wide range of British and foreign archival sources, this book tackles the role of Parliament in the conduct of eighteenth-century foreign policy, the impact of this policy on parliamentary politics, and the quality of parliamentary debates. It is also an important study for our assessment of eighteenth-century Britain, and also, more generally, for an understanding of the role of contingency in the assessment of political systems. Reflecting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521540763
• ISBN13: 9780521540766
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"