Early Modern Political Petitioning And Public Engagement In Scotland Britain And Scandinavia C 1550 1795

Author : Karin Bowie,Thomas Munck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000293500

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Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795 by Karin Bowie,Thomas Munck Pdf

This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms of political petitioning addressed to assemblies or rulers. A petition used to be a humble means of asking a favour, but in the early modern period, petitioning became more assertive and participative. This book shows how this contrasted to ordinary petitioning, often to the consternation of authorities. By evaluating petitioning practices in Scotland, England and Denmark, the book traces the boundaries between ordinary and adversarial petitioning and shows how non-elites could become involved in politics through petitioning. Also observed are the responses of authorities to participative petitions, including the suppression or forgetting of unwelcome petitions and consequent struggles to establish petitioning as a right rather than a privilege. Together the chapters in this book indicate the significance of collective petitioning in articulating early modern public opinion and shaping contemporary ideas about opinion at large. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Parliaments, Estates & Representation.

Author : Brodie Waddell,Jason Peacey
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800085503

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The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain by Brodie Waddell,Jason Peacey Pdf

The ‘humble petition’ was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of the civil wars and in everyday local negotiations about taxation, welfare and litigation. People at all levels of society – from noblemen to paupers – used petitions to make their voices heard and these are valuable sources for mapping the structures of authority and agency that framed early modern society. The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain offers a holistic study of this crucial topic in early modern British history. The contributors survey a vast range of sources, showing the myriad ways people petitioned the authorities from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They cross the jurisdictional, sub-disciplinary and chronological boundaries that have otherwise constrained the current scholarly literature on petitioning and popular political engagement. Teasing out broad conclusions from innumerable smaller interventions in public life, they not only address the aims, attitudes and strategies of those involved, but also assesses the significance of the processes they used. This volume makes it possible to rethink the power of petitioning and to re-evaluate broad trends regarding political culture, institutional change and state formation.

Author : Laura Flannigan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009371360

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Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547 by Laura Flannigan Pdf

Sheds new light on the relationship between Crown and society at the dawn of the Tudor regime.

Author : Henry J. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009062442

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A Nation of Petitioners by Henry J. Miller Pdf

Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. A Nation of Petitioners is the first study of this nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning in the United Kingdom. It explores how ordinary men and women engaged with politics in an era of democratisation, but not democracy, and restores their voices and actions to the story of UK political culture. Drawing on more than a million petitions, as well as archives of leading politicians, institutions, and pressure groups, Henry J. Miller demonstrates the centrality of petitions and petitioning to mass campaigning, representation, collective action, and forging collective identities at the local and national level. From the early nineteenth century, the massive growth of petitions underpinned and reshaped the popular authority of the UK state, including Parliament, the monarchy, and government. Challenging accounts that have stressed disciplinary or exclusionary processes in the evolution of popular politics, A Nation of Petitioners conclusively establishes the importance of the mass participation of ordinary people through petitions.

Author : Arthur der Weduwen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198926627

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State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age by Arthur der Weduwen Pdf

State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the early modern Netherlands. Der Weduwen provides an in-depth study of early modern state communication: the manner in which government sought to inform its citizens, publicise its laws, and engage publicly in quarrels with political opponents. These communication strategies, including proclamations, the use of town criers, and the printing and affixing of hundreds of thousands of edicts, underpinned the political stability of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Based on systematic research in thirty-two Dutch archives, this book demonstrates for the first time how the wealthiest, most literate, and most politically participatory state of early modern Europe was shaped by the communication of political information. It makes a decisive case for the importance of communication to the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the extent to which early modern authorities relied on the active consent of their subjects to legitimise their government.

Author : Cathleen Sarti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000519211

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Deposing Monarchs by Cathleen Sarti Pdf

Deposing Monarchs analyses depositions in Northern Europe between 1500 and 1700 as a type of frequent political conflict which allows to present new ideas on early modern state formation, monarchy, and the conventions of royal rulership. The book revises earlier conceptualizations of depositions as isolated, unique events that emerged in the context of national historiographies. An examination of the official legitimations of depositions reveals that in times of crisis, concepts of tradition, rule of law, and political consensus are much more influential than the divine right of kings. Tracing the similarities and differences of depositions in Northern Europe transnationally and diachronically, the book shows monarchical succession as more non-linear than previously presumed. It offers a transferable model of the different elements needed in depositions, such as opposition to the monarch by multiple groups in a realm, the need for a convincing rival candidate, and a legitimation based on political traditions or religious ideas. Furthermore, the book bolsters our understanding of authority and rule as a constant process of negotiation, adding to recent research on political culture, and on the cultural history of politics.

Author : Karen Lauwers,Sami Suodenjoki,Marnix Beyen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000893960

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Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Karen Lauwers,Sami Suodenjoki,Marnix Beyen Pdf

Approaching subalternity from a broad Gramscian angle, this edited collection contributes to the understanding of popular politics in parliamentary, autocratic, and colonial contexts. The book explores individual stories and micro-histories of complaints, requests, rumors, and other mediated and unmediated interactions between political institutions and the subjects they claimed to govern or represent. It challenges the approaches of institutionally oriented political historiography and its attention to the top-down construction of political representation, citizenship, and power and powerlessness. The book discusses more subtle forms of agency and the spaces these pertained to, which could indicate contestation or resistance taking place within a framework of loyalty towards the existing political institutions. This research does not only bridge the divide between political and apolitical frames of reference, but it also provides a new perspective on the dichotomy between loyalty and resistance by acknowledging the nuances of these seemingly opposing stances. With case studies from Europe, North Africa, South America, and India, the chapters cover political communication in proto-democratic, democratic, imperial, and authoritarian contexts. This volume is crucial reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in history and social sciences who are interested in political culture and the mechanisms of negotiating local, national, or imperial identities.

Author : Julian Hoppit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107015258

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Britain's Political Economies by Julian Hoppit Pdf

An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.

Author : Alexandra Walsham,Brian Cummings,Ceri Law,Bronwyn Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108829991

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Memory and the English Reformation by Alexandra Walsham,Brian Cummings,Ceri Law,Bronwyn Wallace Pdf

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

Author : William David Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521219299

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The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age by William David Davies Pdf

Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

Author : Alan R. MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317039693

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The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c. 1550–1651 by Alan R. MacDonald Pdf

Existing studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of representatives from every parliamentary burgh, and was responsible for apportioning taxation, settling disputes between members, regulating weights and measures, negotiating with the crown on issues of concern to the merchant community. The Convention's role in relation to parliament was particularly significant, for it regulated urban representation, admitted new burghs to parliament, and co-ordinated and oversaw the conduct of the burgess estate in parliament. In this, the first full-length study of the burghs and parliament in Scotland, the influence of this institution is fully analysed over a one hundred year period. Drawing extensively on local and national sources, this book sheds new light upon the way in which parliament acted as a point of contact, a place where legislative business was done, relationships formed and status affirmed. The interactions between centre and localities, and between urban and rural elites are prominent themes, as is Edinburgh's position as the leading burgh and the host of parliament. The study builds upon existing scholarship to place Scotland within the wider British and European context and argues that the Scottish parliament was a distinctive and effective institution which was responsive to the needs of the burghs both collectively and individually.

Author : Giorgio Riello,Ulinka Rublack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108475914

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The Right to Dress by Giorgio Riello,Ulinka Rublack Pdf

Presents a global history of dress regulation and debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised.

Author : Werner Sombart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351480437

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The Jews and Modern Capitalism by Werner Sombart Pdf

Since its first appearance in Germany in 1911, Jews and Modern Capitalism has provoked vehement criticism. As Samuel Z. Klausner emphasizes, the lasting value of Sombart's work rests not in his results-most of which have long since been disproved-but in his point of departure. Openly acknowledging his debt to Max Weber, Sombart set out to prove the double thesis of the Jewish foundation of capitalism and the capitalist foundation of Judaism. Klausner, placing Sombart's work in its historical and societal context, examines the weaknesses and strengths of Jews and Modern Capitalism.

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0521537134

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Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 by Charles Tilly Pdf

Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 is an analysis of the relationship between democratization and contentious politics that builds upon the model set forth in the pathbreaking book, Dynamics of Contention. Using a sustained comparison of French and British histories since 1650 or so as a springboard for more general comparison within Europe Contention and Democracy goes on to demonstrate that democratization occurred as result of struggles during which (as in 19th century Britain and France) few, if any, of the participants were self-consciously trying to create democratic institutions. Consequently, circumstances for democratization vary from era to era, region to region as functions of previous history, international environments, available models of political organization, and predominant patterns of social relations.

Author : William Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : England
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030038422947

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The Growth of English Industry and Commerce ... by William Cunningham Pdf