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Revitalisée par l’Internet et l’effervescence des réseaux issus des sociétés civiles, la pétition connaît une nouvelle vogue comme mode d’action auprès des pouvoirs en place en Europe et dans le monde. Cette renaissance suit des décennies d’effacement apparent, après un xixe siècle que l’on a pu caractériser comme essentiellement pétitionnaire. C’est notamment le cas pour la France et son voisin britannique : entre 1814 et 1848, plus de 40 000 pétitions sont adressées à la Chambre des députés, quand dix fois plus sont présentées à la Chambre des communes. Entre deux royaumes qui présentent alors plus d’une analogie, le contraste est saisissant. Une des clés de ce fossé ne se trouve-t-elle pas dans la place et le rôle que chacun des acteurs de la vie politique accorde à la pétition des deux côtés de la Manche ? L’enjeu est ici celui des médiations et des liens entre société, corps intermédiaires et pouvoirs, d’une part, citoyens actifs, passifs et élites dirigeantes, d’autre part. À travers la mise en œuvre d’une approche globale, transversale et surtout comparative des configurations politiques françaises et britanniques du premier xixe siècle, essentiellement fondée sur l’exploitation qualitative et quantitative de sources originales, ce livre met en perspective les dimensions multiples du phénomène pétitionnaire. En ce sens, il permet de décloisonner les dynamiques politiques nationales classiques et de redéfinir les modèles reçus de rapports entre société civile et État, par-delà les proximités, rapprochements, tensions et autres « Brexit » qui rassemblent autant qu’ils séparent deux voisins proches et différents.

Political participation --- Petitions --- France --- Great Britain --- History --- Histoire contemporaine --- Politique --- Sciences humaines et sociales

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Morelia (Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico) --- Michoacán (Mexico) --- Nueva Ciudad de Mechoacán (Mexico) --- Politics and government. --- Petitions --- History. --- Social pressure

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Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemens Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian history. The men, women and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed to speak for themselves. This book aims to change that. Documents penned by the exiles during their 15 years at the settlement Wybalenna offer a compelling counter-narrative to traditional representations of a hopeless, dispossessed, illiterate people's final days. The exiles did not see themselves as prisoners, but as a Free People. Seen through their own writing, the community at Wybalenna was vibrant, complex and evolving. Rather than a depressed people simply waiting for death, their own words reveal a politically astute community engaged in a 15 year campaign for their own freedom. This book tells a compelling story that will profoundly affect understandings of Tasmanian and Australian history.

Aboriginal Australians --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Social conditions. --- History --- Australian history --- Australian Aborigines --- Tasmania --- Wybalenna --- colonialism --- Aboriginal history --- Tasmanian history --- Flinders Island (Tas.) --- History. --- Exiles --- Correspondence. --- Politics and Government - Political action - Petitions. --- Settlement and contacts - Government settlements, reserves. --- Wybalenna (Flinders Island Tas SK55-02).

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“The sheer breadth of historical work here is astounding, encompassing Senegal to indigenous North America (including Florida) to South America and Europe. Neither scholars nor students of the petition will be able to understand its life-force without reference to this remarkable collection.” —Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University “This remarkable volume fully demonstrates the fundamental role played by petitions in a crucial chronology: the final phase of European empires in the Americas and the emergence of the first Liberal regimes.” —Pedro Cardim, Universidade Nova de Lisboa “This book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of how petitioning shaped political and social relations across the Atlantic world. It expands historical scholarship by illuminating this important dynamic in a wide range of imperial and colonial polities, stretching across the conventional late eighteenth-century divide.” —Brodie Waddell, Birkbeck, University of London “This book deals with one of the most pervasive ways by which people have addressed authority throughout history: petitioning. Based on a Congress held at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (Petitions in the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions), in February of 2019, the book explores traditional practices and institutions, as well as the transformation of petitions as vehicles of popular politics. The ability or the right to petition was also a crucial element for the development and operation of early modern empires, playing a major role on the negotiated patterns of the Atlantic World. This book shows how petitions were used in Europe, America and Africa, by the governors and the governed, by the rich and the poor, by the colonists and the colonised and by the liberal and the reactionary groups. Broken down into three thematic parts, encompassing both in chronological and geographical scope, the book deepens our understanding of petitioning and its relation with ideas of consent and subjecthood, nationality and citizenship, political participation and democracy. This book provides a rare comparative platform for the study of a subject that has been receiving growing interest.” Miguel Dantas da Cruz is an assistant researcher at Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

Petition, Right of --- Petitions --- History. --- Social pressure --- Right of petition --- Political rights --- World history. --- World politics. --- Law—History. --- Imperialism. --- Europe—History—1492-. --- America—History. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- Political History. --- Legal History. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- History of the Americas. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Universal history --- History

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At South Indian village funerals, women cry and lament, men drink and laugh, and untouchables sing and joke to the beat of their drums. No One Cries for the Dead offers an original interpretation of these behaviors, which seem almost unrelated to the dead and to the funeral event. Isabelle Clark-Decès demonstrates that rather than mourn the dead, these Tamil funeral songs first and foremost give meaning to the caste, gender, and personal experiences of the performers.

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Tamil (Indic people) --- Dirges --- Folk songs, Tamil --- Tamil ballads and songs --- Tamil folk songs --- Funeral hymns --- Laments --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Funeral customs and rites. --- History and criticism. --- Social life and customs. --- anthropology. --- behavioral analysis. --- caste system. --- ceremonial. --- cultural analysis. --- death songs. --- death. --- discussion books. --- funeral event. --- funeral singers. --- funeral songs. --- funerals. --- gender issues. --- graveyard petitions. --- grief and mourning. --- historical. --- indian culture. --- life and death. --- nonfiction. --- performers. --- personal experiences. --- rowdy songs. --- social behaviors. --- social customs. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- south india. --- tamil dirges. --- tamil. --- untouchables. --- village setting.