Pressure and Parliament: From Civil War to Civil Society

List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Contesting Interests: Rethinking Pressure, Parliament, Nation, and Empire (Richard Huzzey)The Politics of Pressure2. The Lowest Degree of Freedom': The Right to Petition Parliament, 1640-1800 (Mark Knights)3. Conversations with Parliament: Women and the Politics of Pressure in 19th-Century England (Sarah Richardson)Social and Economic Pressures4. Petitions, Economic Legislation and Interest Groups in Britain, 1660-1800 (Julian Hoppit)5. Social Reform and the Pressure of 'Progress' on Parliament, 1660-1914 (Lawrence Goldman)Intellectual and Spiritual Pressures6. From Estate under Pressure to Spiritual Pressure Group: The Bishops and Parliament (Stephen Taylor and Richard Huzzey)7. Reforming Expectations: Parliamentary Pressure and Moral Reform (Amanda B. Moniz)8. The Too Clever by Half People' and Parliament (William Whyte)Index