Petitions in Social History

Book Overview

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 favor 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521013224
• ISBN13: 9780521013222
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"