Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction - Miguel Dantas Da Cruz and Nuno Gon alo Monteiro
Part I: Reconsidering the Scope of the System1 Petition, Supplication, Plea: Some Definitions - Ant nio Manuel Hespanha2 Reflections on Voice and Authority in the Construction and Operation of Long-Distance Empires and their Successor States in the Americas - Jack P. Greene
Part II: Petitioning within the System3 Indigenous Petitioners in the British and Spanish New World: A Comparative and Entangled Overview from Conquest until Independence - Adrian Masters4 The Appeals Courts in the Portuguese America and the Protection of Rights (c. 1750-1808) - Andr a Slemian5 Provisiones ordinarias. Grievances, Petitions, and Amparos in Colonial Mexico - Carlos Garriga6 Debitage of the Shatter Zone: Requests for Friars and Petitions for Asylum in the Provinces of Florida - Amy T. Bushnel
Part III: Brokers and Practices7 The 'Agentes del N mero de Indias': Official Representatives for Colonial Interests in Madrid, c. 1776-1795 - lvaro Caso Bello8 The changing practice of signatures: Petition drives in the Dutch Atlantic, 1630-1800 - Joris van den Tol
IV: Petitioning in the New Ideological Landscape9 Petitioning by Riot in Spain: From the Old Regime to Liberalism - Diego Pal cios10 Action at a Distance: Petitions and Political Representation in Revolutionary France - Adrian O'Connor11 'We are all French': citizenship, race, and religion in petitions from Senegal, 1789-1848 - Larissa Kopytoff12 The Language of Petitions in the Portuguese Liberal Revolution (1820-1823) - Miguel Dantas da Cruz