da Cruz Petitioning in the Atlantic World, c. 1500–1840

Empires, Revolutions and Social Movements
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-98534-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 271 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

da Cruz, Miguel Dantas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Atlantic petitionary traditions and developments.- Petitionary practices and brokers in the Early Modern Atlantic World.- Chapter 2. Some Reflections on Voice and Authority in the Construction and Operation of Long-Distance Empires and Their Successor States in the Americas; Jack P. Greene.- Chapter 3. Petitions in the Dutch Atlantic and the ‘absence’ of a Dutch West India Interest, c. 1600-1800; Joris van den Tol.- Chapter 4. Petitions to the Courts of Appeal in Portuguese America and the Protection of Rights (c.1750-1808); Andréa Slemian.- Chapter 5. Petitions to Correct Revolutionary Rumors. The City Council of Santafé de Bogotá and Madrid’s Agentes de Indias, c. 1780-1795; Álvaro Caso Bello.- Petitioning and colonialism.- Chapter 6. Indigenous Petitioning in the Early Modern British and Spanish New World; Adrian Masters and Bradley Dixon.- Chapter 7. Debitage of the Shatter Zone: Indoctrination, Asylum, and the Law of Towns in the Provincesof Florida; Amy Turner Bushnell.- Chapter 8. “We are all French”: Race, religion, and citizenship in petitions from Senegal, 1760s-1840s; Larissa Kopytoff.- Revolutionary ruptures and the path to mass petitioning.- Chapter 9. Petitioning as Constitution-Making: Revolutionary Massachusetts and the American Confederation; James F. Hrdlicka.- Chapter 10. Action at a distance: petitions and political representation in revolutionary France; Adrian O’Connor.- Chapter 11. Petitioning by riot in Spain and the origins of modern mass petitioning; Diego Palacios Cerezales.- Chapter 12. The petitionary wave of the First Portuguese Liberal Revolution (1820-1823); Miguel Dantas da Cruz.

Über Autor(innen)

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