THE CAMBRIDGE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (IN TWO VOLUMES).

CANE, Peter. H. Kumarasingham [Eds.].

ISBN 10: 1009277758 / ISBN 13: 9781009277754

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023

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8vo. Pp: xxvii, 584, xxvii, 552. Pictorial purple dust jackets with titles to front and spine, over navy blue paper-covered boards with gilt titles and heraldic device to the spines. ISBN: 9781009277754 / 9781009277099. Heavy items may require extra postage charges. Fine in fine dust jackets.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE CAMBRIDGE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (IN TWO VOLUMES).
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009277758
• ISBN 13: 9781009277754
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of history, law and politics, this path-breaking two-volume 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. Chapters in Volume One, entitled 'Exploring the Constitution', approach the constitution and its history from various scholarly perspectives, and provide historically sensitive discussions of constitutional actors and institutions, and of political traditions and transformations of the constitution. Together, the two volumes form the first, wide-ranging history of the constitution to be published for decades. By their cross-disciplinary approach, taking account of the latest legal, political and historical scholarship on the constitution, they fill a large gap in the literature of the constitution, and in political thought and British history.

About the Authors

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.