Petitions and petitioning in Europe and North America : from the late medieval period to the present / edited by Richard Huzzey, Maartje Janse, Henry Miller, Joris Oddens, and Brodie Waddell.

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EditionFirst edition.
PublicationOxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2024.
Copyright Date©2024
Descriptionxvii, 313 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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Other author/creatorHuzzey, Richard, 1982- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjtC6hvB7J7Y9vQqRKH7Xm
Other author/creatorJanse, Maartje, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjyJvVVKwDQ9THj8HYxygq
Other author/creatorMiller, Henry James, 1981- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwDDDHhY8mKt6rhHMv7f3
Other author/creatorOddens, Joris, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpv4xbmrPyTCvxgkW94bd
Other author/creatorWaddell, Brodie, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwMwRvxQtXrF64VDmR9Xd
Other author/creatorOxford University Press, publisher.
SeriesProceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202
Proceedings of the British Academy 262. ^A299844
Contents Introduction : petitions and petitioning in historical perspective / Richard Huzzey, Maartje Janse, Henry Miller, Joris Oddens, and Brodie Waddell -- pt. 1. Definitions. -- What is a petition? / David Zaret -- Petitions and petitioning through the ages : etymology and historical semantics / Joris Oddens -- Alike but different : varieties of subscriptional practices and communities / Mark Knights -- Petitions : rule-bound but malleable / Joanna Innes -- E-petitions to parliaments : why processes matter / Cristina Leston-Bandeira -- pt. 2. Chronologies, continuities, and transformations. -- Transitions and continuities in petitioning in early modern England / Brodie Waddell and Hannah Worthen -- Strategies of collectiveness : representative claims in Dutch petitionary practices, 1600-1940 / Maartje Janse, Joris Oddens, Anne Petterson, Joris van den Tol, Edurne De Wilde, and Elsa Miedema -- Power, policy, and petitions in Jamaica, 1664-1834 / Aaron Graham -- Petitioning in transition : Switzerland, 1481-1891 / Andreas Würgler -- The evolution of petitioning in Europe and North America, 1850-2000 / Richard Huzzey and Henry Miller -- pt. 3. Petitions and petitioning in context. -- Unanimity, anonymity and immunity : Thomas Haxey and the form of the common petition in fourteenth-century England / Gwilym Dodd -- Negotiated citizenship through petitions in late medieval Italy / Marta Gravela -- Petitioning soldiers, the power of the patient, and the provision of military welfare in seventeenth-century England and Wales / Ismini Pells -- Petitions above party : representation and congressional petitioning, 1789-1950 / Maggie Blackhawk and Daniel Carpenter -- Petitioning the Soviet "president" : Mikhail Kalinin's Reception Office, 1919-46 / Lara Douds -- Conclusion : and your petitioners, &c. / Henry Miller.
Abstract "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."-- Back cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formAufsatzsammlung.
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