Knowledge and Power : The Parliamentary

Knowledge and Power: The Parliamentary Representation of Universities and the Empire presents the first comprehensive account of how universities held seats in Britains 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

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.

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Acknowledgments

Note on Terminology

Introduction

1. University Representation in the 17th and 18th Centuries

2. The Rise and Fall of the University Franchise

3. Debating University Representation

4. University Representatives

5. University Representation in India

6. Imperial Comparisons

Conclusion

Appendices

1. A Timeline of University Representation

2. Representation of Universities in the English, Irish and United Kingdom Parliaments (by Decade), 1603-1950

3. University Representatives in the Parliaments of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, 1603-1950

4. Burgesses for the University of Dublin (Trinity College) in the Irish House of Commons, 1613-1800

5. Members for the College of William and Mary in the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1700-76

6. Allocation of Seats under the Government of India Act, 1935, for the Lower House in Each Provincial Legislature

7. University Members in Indian Provincial Legislative Councils, 1893-1955

Bibliography

Index

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Knowledge and Power : The Parliamentary Representation of Universities in Britain and the Empire

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