Knowledge and Power: The Parliamentary Representation of Universities and the Empire presents the first comprehensive account of how universities held seats in Britain's Parliament between the 17th and 20th centuries and how the idea of university representation spread throughout the British Empire.
Represents the first systematic study of a significant but largely neglected institution which was part of the British constitution for 350 years
Sheds new light on the uneven and paradoxical processes of British political modernization
Features a detailed case study of the trans-imperial dissemination and adaptation of British constitutional ideas and practices
Supplemented with detailed appendices on the representation of universities in Britain, Ireland, America, and India
Recenzijas
While forms of textual remediation remain beyond the scope of her study, Bernstein offers brilliant new readings that should have a powerful impact on studies of Victorian womens literary history and prompts us to reconsider old materials and spaces in light of the new archival turn. (Knowledge & Power, Autumn 2014)
Table of Tables
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Acknowledgments
vii
Note on Terminology
viii
Introduction
1
(10)
Chapter 1 University Representation in the 17th and 18th Centuries
11
(13)
Chapter 2 The Rise and Fall of the University Franchise
24
(24)
Chapter 3 Debating University Representation
48
(19)
Chapter 4 University Representatives
67
(18)
Chapter 5 University Representation in India
85
(29)
Chapter 6 Imperial Comparisons
114
(24)
Conclusion
138
(10)
Appendices
1 A Timeline of University Representation
148
(8)
2 Representation of Universities in the English, Irish and United Kingdom Parliaments (by Decade), 1603--1950
156
(1)
3 University Representatives in the Parliaments of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, 1603--1950
157
(8)
4 Burgesses for the University of Dublin (Trinity College) in the Irish House of Commons, 1613--1800
165
(1)
5 Members for the College of William and Mary in the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1700--76
166
(1)
6 Allocation of Seats under the Government of India Act, 1935, for the Lower House in Each Provincial Legislature
167
(1)
7 University Members in Indian Provincial Legislative Councils, 1893--1955
168
(3)
Bibliography
171
(14)
Index
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Joseph S. Meisel is the Deputy Provost at Brown University. He was previously a program officer for the humanities at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is author of Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone (2001) and co-author of the forthcoming Harry Furniss The Humours of Parliament: A View of Late Victorian Political Culture.
