A nation of petitioners : petitions and petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918
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A nation of petitioners : petitions and petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918
(Modern British histories)
Cambridge University Press, 2023
- : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-293) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Petitions: 1. Petitions to the House of Commons I: scale and trends
- 2. Petitions to the House of Commons II: issues
- 3. Subscriptional cultures and petitionary documents
- Part II. Petitioners: 4. The right to petition
- 5. Petitioners I: collective identities
- 6. Petitioners II: petitioning communities
- Part III. Petitioning: 7. The practice of petitioning
- 8. Mass petitioning
- 9. Petitioning and representation
- 10. Petitioning and political culture in an age of democratisation
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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