Petitions in Social History
Part of International Review of Social History Supplements
- Editor: Lex Heerma van Voss, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
- Date Published: January 2002
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521013222
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This book looks at petitions over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of 'humble' petitioners. Since Pharaonic times, governments have allowed their subjects to voice opinions in the form of petitions, which have demanded a favour or the redressment of an injustice. To be effective, a petition had to mention the request, usually a motivation and always the name or names of the petitioners. As a result, grievances of ordinary people which were not written down anywhere else are now stored safely in the archives of the authorities to which the petitions were addressed. The petitions considered in this book, which come from all over the globe, offer rich and valuable sources for social historians.
Read more- Broad chronological span (1500–2000) and international in scope
- Petitions have been a hitherto neglected source and offer a valuable window into the lives of ordinary people
- Offers different qualitative and quantitative ways to analyse petitions
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- Date Published: January 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521013222
- length: 242 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.367kg
- contains: 8 b/w illus. 5 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Lex Heerma van Voss
1. Voices from the 'silent masses': humble petitions and social conflicts in early modern Central Europe Andreas Würgler
2. Supplications between politics and justice: the northern and central Italian states in the early modern age Cecilia Nubola
3. The power of petitions: women and the New Hampshire provincial government, 1695–1770 Marcia Schmidt Blaine
4. Officially solicited petitions: the Cahiers de Doléances as a historical source Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff
5. Revolt, testimony, petition: artisanal protests in colonial Andhra Potukuchi Swarnalatha
6. Deference and defiance: the changing nature of petitioning in British naval dockyards Ken Lunn and Ann Day
7. Petitions and the social context of political mobilization in the revolution of 1848/49: a microhistorical actor-centered network analysis Carola Lipp and Lothar Krempel
8. The image of Jews in Byelorussia: petitions as a source for popular consciousness in the early twentieth century Aleg G. Bukhovets
9. 'Begging the sages of the party-state': citizenship and government in transition in nationalist China, 1927–37 Rebecca Nedostup and Liang Hong-Ming
10. Private matters: family and race and the post-World-War-II translation of 'American' Nancy K. Ota.
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