{"product_id":"9781444332896","title":"Speakers and the Speakership Presiding Officers and the Management of Business from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-first Century","description":"\u003ch3\u003eParliamentary History Book Series\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eSpeakers and the Speakership\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003ePresiding Officers and the Management of Business from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-first Century\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePaul Seaward\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ American Government \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis volume explores the role of the Speaker and the Lord Chancellor in the Westminster Parliament before the advent of democracy, setting it beside the practice at Dublin and Edinburgh over the same period, and the more recent history of the role at London and Washington.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFirst in-depth study since the mid-1960s of how Speakers and the Speakership have operated in Parliament in Britain\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes contribution by the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Boothroyd, describing her own tenure of the Speakership\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers practice at Westminster and at Dublin and Edinburgh, and a comparison of Speakers at Westminster and Washington during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eComposed of papers from a conference held at the House of Commons in April 2008\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003ePaul Seaward\u003c\/b\u003e has held the position of Director of the History of Parliament Trust since 2001. Previously, he was a Clerk in the House of Commons. He has written on politics, history and political thought in the late seventeenth century and on Parliament in the twentieth century. His publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661-1667\u003c\/i\u003e (1989); \u003ci\u003eThe Restoration, 1660-1688\u003c\/i\u003e (1991\u003ci\u003e); The Politics of Religion in Restoration England\u003c\/i\u003e (1990: edited with Mark Goldie and Tim Harris); and editions of Clarendon’s \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Rebellion\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and Hobbes’s \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof the English Civil War, Behemoth\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e08 February 2010\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781444332896\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e160\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e8.32\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378659946636,"sku":"9781444332896","price":37.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781444332896_066cce6a-19dc-4091-9793-ca828ef5c494.jpg?v=1780103868","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781444332896","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}