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A Nation of Petitioners : Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918 by Henry James Miller is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Nation of Petitioners : Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918 about?
Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. A Nation of Petitioners is the first study of this nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning in the United Kingdom. It explores how ordinary men and women engaged with politics in an era of democratisation, but not democracy, and restores their voices and actions to the story of UK political culture. Drawing on more than a million petitions, as well as archives of leading politicians,
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Henry James Miller
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781009053631
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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