Petitioning in the Atlantic World, c. 1500–1840

Miguel Dantas da Cruz is an assistant researcher at Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Atlantic petitionary traditions and developments.- Petitionary practices and brokers in the Early Modern Atlantic World.- Chapter 2. Some Reflections on Voice and Authority in the Construction and Operation of Long-Distance Empires and Their Successor States in the Americas; Jack P. Greene.- Chapter 3. Petitions in the Dutch Atlantic and the ‘absence’ of a Dutch West India Interest, c. 1600-1800; Joris van den Tol.- Chapter 4. Petitions to the Courts of Appeal in Portuguese America and the Protection of Rights (c.1750-1808); Andréa Slemian.- Chapter 5. Petitions to Correct Revolutionary Rumors. The City Council of Santafé de Bogotá and Madrid’s Agentes de Indias, c. 1780-1795; Álvaro Caso Bello.- Petitioning and colonialism.- Chapter 6. Indigenous Petitioning in the Early Modern British and Spanish New World; Adrian Masters and Bradley Dixon.- Chapter 7. Debitage of the Shatter Zone: Indoctrination, Asylum, and the Law of Towns in the Provincesof Florida; Amy Turner Bushnell.- Chapter 8. “We are all French”: Race, religion, and citizenship in petitions from Senegal, 1760s-1840s; Larissa Kopytoff.- Revolutionary ruptures and the path to mass petitioning.- Chapter 9. Petitioning as Constitution-Making: Revolutionary Massachusetts and the American Confederation; James F. Hrdlicka.- Chapter 10. Action at a distance: petitions and political representation in revolutionary France; Adrian O’Connor.- Chapter 11. Petitioning by riot in Spain and the origins of modern mass petitioning; Diego Palacios Cerezales.- Chapter 12. The petitionary wave of the First Portuguese Liberal Revolution (1820-1823); Miguel Dantas da Cruz.