The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom: Volume 2, The Changing Constitution

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Peter Cane (Christ's College, Cambridge and Australian National University) H. Kumarasingham (University of Edinburgh)

The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom

Volume 2, The Changing Constitution

Peter Cane (Christ's College, Cambridge and Australian National University), H. Kumarasingham (University of Edinburgh)

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Cambridge University Press
17 August 2023

Constitutional & administrative law

Series: The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of history, law and politics, this path-breaking work traces the development of the United Kingdom's constitution from Anglo-Saxon times and explores its role in the creation, exercise and control of public power. Essays in Volume Two, entitled 'The Changing Constitution', examine the development of the constitution from the departure of the Romans up to the present day and beyond. Together, the two volumes form the first, wide-ranging history of the constitution to be published for more than 50 years. By its cross-disciplinary approach, taking account of the latest legal, political and historical scholarship on the constitution, it fills a large gap in the literature of the constitution, and in political thought and British history.

Edited by: Peter Cane (Christ's College Cambridge and Australian National University), H. Kumarasingham (University of Edinburgh)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 1.040kg
ISBN: 9781009277099
ISBN 10: 100927709X
Series: The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
Pages: 505
Publication Date: 17 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

23. The kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England Simon Keynes; 24. England after the conquest George Garnett; 25. England in the thirteenth century Paul Brand; 26. England in the fourteenth century Christine Carpenter and Andrew Spencer; 27. England in the fifteenth century David J. Seipp; 28. England in the sixteenth century David Chan Smith; 29. The english constitution in the seventeenth century: crises of inadequacy Glenn Burgess; 30. A European perspective Tamar Herzog; 31. Wales before annexation Robin Chapman Stacey; 32. The Scottish constitution before 1707 Laura A. M. Stewart; 33. The eighteenth-century constitution: settlement and resettlement R. A. Melikan; 34. The constitutional and parliamentary history of Ireland till the union Thomas Bartlett; 35. The United Kingdom in the nineteenth century Ewen A. Cameron; 36. The United Kingdom in the twentieth century Andrew Blick; 37. The twenty-first century constitution Vernon Bogdanor; 38. Wales since the annexation Robert Cragoe; 39. Scotland in the union Stephen Tierney; 40. Ireland in the union Donal Coffey; 41. The making of empire Coel Kirkby; 42. constitution and empire H. Kumarasingham.

Peter Cane has written widely in areas of public law, private law and legal theory. He is co-editor (with Lisa Ford and Mark McMillan) of The Cambridge Legal History of Australia and author of Controlling Administrative Power: An Historical Comparison (2016). He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of the Australian National University. H. Kumarasingham teaches at the University of Edinburgh. His work and interests cover the history and politics of the United Kingdom, the late British Empire and the Commonwealth. His publications include the collections Constitution-Maker: Selected Writings of Sir Ivor Jennings (2015) and Viceregalism: The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth (2020). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Reviews for The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom: Volume 2, The Changing Constitution

'This is a much-needed update to constitutional history and is relevant to students and scholars in many fields. Recommended.' M. K. Thompson, Choice 'Peter Cane and Harshan Kumarasingham have gathered together an outstanding group of authors, and they have produced a work of the highest quality … the present work is genuinely a constitutional history of the entire United Kingdom and its constituent parts … Unlike previous constitutional histories … this work is jointly authored by historians, lawyers and political scientists. This is of enormous value in making sense of our constitution, as it is based not only on legal documents, or on political understandings and practices, but on a combination of law, politics and practice which encompasses more than one academic discipline.' The Right Honourable The Lord Reed of Allermuir, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom 'A formidable and valuable assemblage of essays … the first new and capacious treatment in some fifty years of UK constitutional history … the result is an important work of reference' Dame Linda Colley, New York Review of Books 'The editors 'steer away from stale orthodoxies and insular complacency, interrogating instead Whig assumptions about English exceptionalism … The most significant departure from the old orthodoxy here is the editors' remapping of this most stubbornly Anglocentric of fields. They have commissioned essays on a plurality of jurisdictions and legislatures, not just Scottish, Irish and Welsh, but also the wider empire and Commonwealth.' Colin Kidd, London Review of Books