A Nation of Petitioners
Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918
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Part of Modern British Histories
- Author: Henry J. Miller, Durham University
- Date Published: February 2023
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316511701
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Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. A Nation of Petitioners is the first study of this nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning in the United Kingdom. It explores how ordinary men and women engaged with politics in an era of democratisation, but not democracy, and restores their voices and actions to the story of UK political culture. Drawing on more than a million petitions, as well as archives of leading politicians, institutions, and pressure groups, Henry J. Miller demonstrates the centrality of petitions and petitioning to mass campaigning, representation, collective action, and forging collective identities at the local and national level. From the early nineteenth century, the massive growth of petitions underpinned and reshaped the popular authority of the UK state, including Parliament, the monarchy, and government. Challenging accounts that have stressed disciplinary or exclusionary processes in the evolution of popular politics, A Nation of Petitioners conclusively establishes the importance of the mass participation of ordinary people through petitions.
Read more- Restores the centrality of petitions and petitioning to understanding UK political culture during a pivotal period for the evolution of popular politics and the state
- Addresses key arguments around democratisation, collective action, social movements, and representation from an accessible historical perspective
- Places the nineteenth-century UK experience in comparative chronological and geographical perspective
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'… an important study of a relatively neglected area of British politics: petitions. … Recommended.' P. Stansky, Choice
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- Date Published: February 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316511701
- length: 310 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.59kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Petitions:
1. Petitions to the House of Commons I: scale and trends
2. Petitions to the House of Commons II: issues
3. Subscriptional cultures and petitionary documents
Part II. Petitioners:
4. The right to petition
5. Petitioners I: collective identities
6. Petitioners II: petitioning communities
Part III. Petitioning:
7. The practice of petitioning
8. Mass petitioning
9. Petitioning and representation
10. Petitioning and political culture in an age of democratisation
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.
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