Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America : From the Late Medieval Period to the Present Hardback

Edited by Richard (Professor of Modern British History, Professor of Modern British History, Durham Un Huzzey, Maartje (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Leiden University) Janse, Henry (Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, Northumbria University) Miller, Joris (Research Group Leader, Huygens Institute for the History and Culture of the Netherlan Oddens, Brodie (Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, B Waddell

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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.