This book provides an entry point to the most cutting-edge lines of research on popular political mobilisation in Europe. It brings together leading scholars from Germany, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Spain. The chapters explore the connected dimensions of popular participation within different countries and across borders, covering the topics of iconoclasm, popular acclamations, street politics, associations, petitions and electoral agitation. Focusing on the role of disenfranchised citizens and women, this collection broadens the themes of traditional political historical research that has identified political participation with the right to vote and struggles for political inclusion, and brings a wide array of formal and informal political practices to the centre of nineteenth-century European life. A must-read for scholars, undergraduates, and graduate students wishing to explore multiple dimensions of the history of political engagement and politicisation.
Author(s): Diego Palacios Cerezales, Oriol Luján
Series: Palgrave Studies in Political History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 293
City: Cham
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Perspectives on Agency and Citizenship
Notes
2 Plebiscites on the Streets: The Politics of Public Acclamation in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe
Historical Research on Acclamations: Current State and Future Avenues
Forms, Functions, Situations, and Collectives
Impact, Significance, and Historical Development
Notes
3 Visual History and Informal Politicisation in the Nineteenth Century: The Example of Political Iconoclasm (France, 1814–1871)
The Visual Regime of Iconoclasm
Violence and Iconoclastic Rites
The Political Grammar of Iconoclasm
Notes
4 Royalist Women in the Marketplace: Work, Gender and Popular Counter-Revolution in Southern Europe (1814–1830)
‘Royalist Furies’: Work, Gender and Counter-Revolutionary Politics
Femmes des halles and poissardes: Royalist Market Women in Marseille (1814–1815)
Verduleras and mujerzuelas: Royalist Market Women in Madrid (1814–1833)
The Politicisation of Everyday Concerns and the Feeling of an Incomplete Restoration
Conclusion
Notes
5 Women, Politics, and Politicisation in Spain (1808–1874)
Women’s Activism in Times of War and Revolution
Domesticity and Politics During the Reign of Isabella II
Activist Hatching (1868–1874)
Conclusion
Notes
6 Citizens, Subjects and Recruits: Changing Perceptions of State, Administration and Individual in the City of Mainz, 1790–1814
An Administrative History from Below
The Establishment of Republican Symbols and Ideas in Mainz, 1790–1814
Administering the Military: Impressions from a City
Conclusion
Notes
7 Militias and Volunteer Forces: Popular Mobilisation in Times of Revolution (1820–1843)
The Trienio Liberal (1820–1823): The Proliferation of Battalions
The Bienio Revolucionario (1835–1837): The Battalion of the Smock
The Trienio Progresista (1840–1843): Volunteer Forces
Conclusions
Notes
8 Political Actors Thanks to or Despite the Law? The Empowered Voices of Individuals in Nineteenth-Century Electoral Claims
Electoral Grievances and Protests: Means to Neutralise the Voice of Non-electors and Electors?
Between Positive and Natural Law
Means of Political Participation
Notes
9 Hoarse Throats and Sore Heads: Popular Participation in Parliamentary Elections Before Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
The Franchise and the Spatial Organisation of Elections
Popular Electoral Participation
The Significance and Limitations of Popular Involvement
Conclusion: The Decline of Popular Electoral Culture
Notes
10 Voluntary Associations and Political Participation
Irish Catholic Association
British Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Societies
The Dutch Temperance Movement
Conclusion
Notes
11 Signatures of Conservatism: Petitioning, Popular Politics and Campaigns Against Reform in Britain, 1780–1918
Reactive Petitioning
Conservative Collective Identities
Quality and Representativeness
A Neutral Technology for Mobilisation
Notes
12 Catholic Transnational Repertoires in the Nineteenth-Century: Signatures, Newspapers and Organisation
Addresses to Pius IX
Not Two Campaigns Looked Alike
The Role of Newspapers
1859–1874: Developing Muscle
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
