Petitions in social history
By: edited by Lex Heerma van Voss.
Contributors: Heerma van Voss, Lex.
Series: International review of social history.; 9
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Petition, Right of -- History.; Social history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Voices from among the "silent masses" -- Andreas Würgler; title: Supplications between politics and justice -- Cecilia Nubola; title: Power of petitions : women and the New Hampshire provincial government, 1695-1700 -- Marcia Schmidt Blaine; title: Officially solicited petitions -- Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff; title: Revolt, testimony, petition : artisanal protests in colonial Andhra -- Potukuchi Swarnalatha; title: Deference and defiance : the changing nature of petitioning in British naval dockyards -- Kenn Lunn and Ann Day; title: Petitions and the social context of political mobilization in the revolution of 1848/49 : a microhistorical actor-centered network analysis -- Carola Lipp and Lothar Krempel; title: Image of Jews in Byelorussia : petitions as a source for popular consciousness in the early twentieth century -- Oleg G. Bukhovets; title: Begging the sages of the party-state : citizenship and government in transition in nationalist China, 1927-1937 -- Rebecca Nedostup and Liang Hong-ming; title: Private matters : family and race and the post-World-War-II translation of "American" -- Nancy K. Ota.