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Throughout history, across very different types of state and society, petitions and petitioning have been ubiquitous practices and the interaction between petitioners and authority has been a crucial dynamic in exercising and contesting power. Consolidating and advancing a rapidly expanding field of research across history, law, and the social sciences, Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America is the first study of these venerable practices from their development in the late medieval period to the emergence of e-petitions in the twenty-first century. With a broad focus on Europe and North America, this ambitious volume breaks new ground by examining the concept, history, and practice of petitions and petitioning across chronological and geographical boundaries, opening up this important topic using an interdisciplinary approach across the humanities and social sciences.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Petitions and Petitioning in Historical Perspective
Part I: Definitions
1: DAVID ZARET: What is a Petition?
2: JORIS ODDENS: Petitions and Petitioning Through the Ages: Etymology and Historical Semantics
3: MARK KNIGHTS: Alike but Different: Varieties of Subscriptional Practices and Communities
4: JOANNA INNES: Petitions: Rule-bound but Malleable
5: CRISTINA LESTON-BANDEIRA: E-petitions to Parliaments: Why Processes Matter
Part II: Chronologies, Continuities, and Transformations
6: BRODIE WADDELL AND HANNAH WORTHEN: Transitions and Continuities in Petitioning in Early Modern England
7: MAARTJE JANSE, JORIS ODDENS, ANNE PETTERSON, JORIS VAN DEN TOL, EDURNE DE WILDE, AND ELSA MIEDEMA: Strategies of Collectiveness: Representative Claims in Dutch Petitionary Practices, 1600-1940
8: AARON GRAHAM: Power, Policy, and Petitions in Jamaica, 1664-1834
9: ANDREAS WÜRGLER: Petitioning in Transition: Switzerland, 1481-1891
10: RICHARD HUZZEY AND HENRY MILLER: The Evolution of Petitioning in Europe and North America, 1850-2000
Part III: Petitions and Petitioning in Context
11: GWILYM DODD: Unanimity, Anonymity and Immunity: Thomas Haxey and the Form of the Common Petition in Fourteenth-Century England
12: MARTA GRAVELA: Negotiated Citizenship Through Petitions in Late Medieval Italy
13: ISMINI PELLS: Petitioning Soldiers, the Power of the Patient, and the Provision of Military Welfare in Seventeenth-Century England and Wales
14: MAGGIE BLACKHAWK AND DANIEL CARPENTER: Petitions Above Party: Representation and Congressional Petitioning, 1789-1950
15: LARA DOUDS: Petitioning the Soviet President: Mikhail Kalinin's Reception Office, 1919-46
Conclusion: And Your Petitioners, andc.
Index