The Eighteenth-Century Composite State

1. Introduction The Irish Parliament in European Context: A Representative Institution in a Composite State
D. W. Hayton, James Kelly

Part I. Ireland

2. Money, Politics and Power: The Financial Legislation of the Irish Parliament
Charles Ivar McGrath

3. Sustaining a Confessional State: The Irish Parliament and Catholicism
James Kelly

4. Parliament and the Established Church: Reform and Reaction
D. W. Hayton

5. Defending the Kingdom and Preserving the Constitution: Irish Militia Legislation 1692–1793
Neal Garnham

6. Legislating for Economic Development: Irish Fisheries as a Case Study in the Limitations of ‘Improvement’
Andrew Sneddon

Part II. Europe

7. ‘Le roi demande, les états consente’: Royal Council, Provincial Estates and Parlements in Eighteenth-Century Burgundy
Julian Swann

8. The Estates of Languedoc in Eighteenth-Century France: Administrative Expansion and Feudal Revitalisation
Stephen J. Miller

9. Managing a Composite Monarchy: The Hungarian Diet and the Habsburgs in the Eighteenth Century
Orsolya Szakály

10. Lawmaking in a Post-Composite State? The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century
Richard Butterwick

11. Conclusion
D. W. Hayton, James Kelly

Nyckelord: History, European History, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Political History