Petitions in Social History
Download or Read eBook Petitions in Social History PDF written by Lex Heerma van Voss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Lex Heerma van Voss |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2002-01-07 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0521013224 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780521013222 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Petitions in Social History by : Lex Heerma van Voss
Book excerpt: This book looks at petitions over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of 'humble' petitioners. Since Pharaonic times, governments have allowed their subjects to voice opinions in the form of petitions, which have demanded a favour or the redressment of an injustice. To be effective, a petition had to mention the request, usually a motivation and always the name or names of the petitioners. As a result, grievances of ordinary people which were not written down anywhere else are now stored safely in the archives of the authorities to which the petitions were addressed. The petitions considered in this book, which come from all over the globe, offer rich and valuable sources for social historians.
