A political history of the House of Lords, 1811-1846, from the regency to corn law repeal.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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9780804757638

A political history of the House of Lords, 1811-1846, from the regency to corn law repeal.

Davis, Richard W.

Stanford U. Press

2008

382 pages

$60.00

Hardcover

JN621

What did the Reform Act of 1832 do to the power of Britain's House of Lords? How did the peers' concern for the poor compare to that of the commoners in the other House? Davis (history emeritus, Washington U., St. Louis) closely examines this largely forgotten but crucial force in British political and social history and finds the Lords ...

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