Petitioning in the Atlantic World, c. 1500–1840:Empires, Revolutions and Social Movements

by: Miguel Dantas da Cruz (Editor)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 28 Oct. 2022

Language: English

Print Length: 282 pages

ISBN-10: 3030985334

ISBN-13: 9783030985332

Book Description

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 mode empires, playing a major role on the negotiated pattes of the Atlantic World. This book shows how petitions were used in Europe, America and Africa, by the goveors and the goveed, 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.
Review “Petitioning was always a hemispheric reality in the mode age, but not until Petitioning in the Atlantic World have its contours been properly narrated. The sheer breadth of historical work here is astounding, encompassing Senegal to indigenous North America (including Florida) to South America and Europe. Neither scholars nor students of the petition will be able to understand its life-force without reference to this remarkable collection.”―Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Govement, Harvard University“This remarkable volume edited by Miguel Dantas da Cruz fully demonstrates the fundamental role played by petitions in a crucial chronology:the final phase of European empires in the Americas and the emergence of the first Liberal regimes. This book also has the merit of demonstrating the wide variety of actors involved in petition practices, and the fact that it focuses, in a coherent way, on a wide diversity of contexts, from the Americas to West Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.”―Pedro Cardim, Universidade Nova de Lisboa“This book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of how petitioning shaped political and social relations across the Atlantic world. It expands historical scholarship by illuminating this important dynamic in a wide range of imperial and colonial polities, stretching across the conventional late eighteenth-century divide.”―Brodie Waddell, Birkbeck, University of London. From the Back Cover “The sheer breadth of historical work here is astounding, encompassing Senegal to indigenous North America (including Florida) to South America and Europe. Neither scholars nor students of the petition will be able to understand its life-force without reference to this remarkable collection.”―Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Govement, Harvard University“This remarkable volume fully demonstrates the fundamental role played by petitions in a crucial chronology:the final phase of European empires in the Americas and the emergence of the first Liberal regimes.”―Pedro Cardim, Universidade Nova de Lisboa“This book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of how petitioning shaped political and social relations across the Atlantic world. It expands historical scholarship by illuminating this important dynamic in a wide range of imperial and colonial polities, stretching across the conventional late eighteenth-century divide.”―Brodie Waddell, Birkbeck, University of London“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 mode empires, playing a major role on the negotiated pattes of the Atlantic World. This book shows how petitions were used in Europe, America and Africa, by the goveors and the goveed, 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.”Miguel Dantas da Cruz is an assistant researcher at Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
About the Author
Miguel Dantas da Cruz is an assistant researcher at Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

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