Realities of Representation

1. Introduction Realities of Representation: State Building in Early Modern Europe and European America
Maija Jansson

2. The Representation of The People in Eighteenth-Century Britain
H. T. Dickinson

3. Parliament and the Idea of Political Accountability in Early Modern Britain
Paul Seaward

4. Boroughmongering, Biography, and the Reform of Parliament: James Boswell and the Earl of Lonsdale
Gordon Turnbull

5. The Unrepresentable French?
David A. Bell

6. Noble Corporations and Provincial Diets in the Ecclesiastical Principalities of the Holy Roman Empire Ca. 1648–1802
Ronald G. Asch

7. Power, Politics and Parliament in Seventeenth-Century Ireland
Jane Ohlmeyer

8. Repression And Representation: Political Culture In Early Modern Scandinavia
Knud J. V. Jespersen

9. An Unbalanced Representation: The Nature and Functions of The Cortes of Castile in The Habsburg Period (1538–1698)
José Ignacio Fortea Pérez

10. Traditions of Consensual Governance in the Construction of State Authority in the Early Modern Empires in America
Jack P. Greene

11. Governing a Colony Pas Commes Les Autres: The Dilemmas of Unplanned Conquest
Ramsay Cook

12. Conclusion New Approaches to Early Modern Representation
Steven Pincus

13. Afterword Representative Government: How Sure a Thing?
Robert Zaller

Avainsanat: History, European History, Modern History, History of the Americas, Social History, Cultural History, Historiography and Method