Petitions in Social History

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-521-01322-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: International Review of Social History Supplements

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heerma Van Voss, Lex

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Lex Heerma van Voss; Voices from the 'silent masses': Humble Petitions and Social Conflicts in Early Modern Central Europe Andreas Würgler; Supplications between Politics and Justice: The Northern and Central Italian States in the Early Modern Age Cecilia Nubola; The Power of Petitions: Women and the New Hampshire Provincial Government, 1695–1770 Marcia Schmidt Blaine; Officially Solicited Petitions: The Cahiers de Doléances as a Historical Source Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff; Revolt, Testimony, Petition: Artisanal Protests in Colonial Andhra Potukuchi Swarnalatha; Deference and Defiance: The Changing Nature of Petitioning in British Naval Dockyards Ken Lunn and Ann Day; 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; The Image of Jews in Byelorussia: Petitions as a Source for Popular Consciousness in the Early Twentieth Century Aleg G. Bukhovets; 'Begging the Sages of the Party-State': Citizenship and Government in Transition in Nationalist China, 1927–1937 Rebecca Nedostup and Liang Hong-Ming; Private Matters: Family and Race and the Post-World-War-II Translation of 'American' Nancy K. Ota.

Über Autor(innen)

Heerma Van Voss, Lex
Lex Heerma van Voss (d.o.b.7 June 1955) studied Social and Economic History in Utrecht and Paris. He wrote his dissertation on the introduction of the Eight Hour working day in the Netherlands and published on the social history of the Netherlands in the Modern period and the North Sea area in the Early Modern period. He organised the European Social Science History Conference and co-edited volumes on Dock Workers, North Sea Culture, Industrial Conflict, Working-Class and Popular Culture, Generations, the Social History of Clothing, the Trade in Textiles and West-European Labour Historiography. Besides being a research fellow at the International Institute of Social History, he is Professor of Social and Economic History at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Utrecht University and associate director of the Netherlands Economic History Archive.