ISBN:
9780197267721
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 313 Seiten
Edition:
First edtion
Series Statement:
Proceedings of the British Academy 262
DDC:
323.4809409
Keywords:
Petitions History
;
Petitions History
;
Amerikanische Geschichte
;
European history
;
Europäische Geschichte
;
HISTORY / Europe / General
;
HISTORY / North America
;
HISTORY / Social History
;
History of the Americas
;
POL058000
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy
;
Political activism
;
Politischer Aktivismus / Politisches Engagement
;
Social & cultural history
;
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
;
Europa
;
Europe
;
Nordamerika (USA und Kanada)
;
North America
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Europa
;
Nordamerika
;
Petition
Abstract:
The first study of petitioning from the late medieval period to the era of e-petitions, Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America explains why these practices have been central to the exercise and contestation of power across North America and Europe
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.
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