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This book deals with one of the most pervasive ways by which people have addressed authority throughout history: petitioning. Based on a Congress held at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (Petitions in the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions), in February of 2019, the book explores traditional practices and institutions, as well as the transformation of petitions as vehicles of popular politics. The ability or the right to petition was also a crucial element for the development and operation of early modern empires, playing a major role on the negotiated patterns of the Atlantic World. This book shows how petitions were used in Europe, America and Africa, by the governors and the governed, by the rich and the poor, by the colonists and the colonised and by the liberal and the reactionary groups. Broken down into three thematic parts, encompassing both in chronological and geographical scope, the book deepens our understanding of petitioning and its relation with ideas of consent and subjecthood, nationality and citizenship, political participation and democracy. This book provides a rare comparative platform for the study of a subject that has been receiving growing interest.

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Author:   Miguel Dantas da Cruz
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.374kg
ISBN:  

9783030985363

ISBN 10:   3030985369
Pages:   271
Publication Date:   28 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Miguel Dantas Da Cruz and Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro Part I: Reconsidering the Scope of the System1 Petition, Supplication, Plea: Some Definitions – António Manuel Hespanha2 Reflections on Voice and Authority in the Construction and Operation of Long-Distance Empires and their Successor States in the Americas – Jack P. Greene Part II: Petitioning within the System3 Indigenous Petitioners in the British and Spanish New World: A Comparative and Entangled Overview from Conquest until Independence – Adrian Masters4 The Appeals Courts in the Portuguese America and the Protection of Rights (c. 1750-1808) – Andréa Slemian5 Provisiones ordinarias. Grievances, Petitions, and Amparos in Colonial Mexico – Carlos Garriga6 Debitage of the Shatter Zone:  Requests for Friars and Petitions for Asylum in the Provinces of Florida – Amy T. Bushnel Part III: Brokers and Practices7 The ‘Agentes del Número de Indias': Official Representatives for Colonial Interests in Madrid,  c. 1776-1795 – Álvaro Caso Bello8 The changing practice of signatures: Petition drives in the Dutch Atlantic, 1630-1800 – Joris van den Tol IV: Petitioning in the New Ideological Landscape9 Petitioning by Riot in Spain: From the Old Regime to Liberalism – Diego Palácios10 Action at a Distance: Petitions and Political Representation in Revolutionary France – Adrian O’Connor11 ‘We are all French’: citizenship, race, and religion in petitions from Senegal, 1789-1848 – Larissa Kopytoff12 The Language of Petitions in the Portuguese Liberal Revolution (1820-1823) – Miguel Dantas da Cruz

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Miguel Dantas da Cruz is an assistant researcher at Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

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