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This book looks at petitions over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of 'humble' petitioners. Since Pharaonic times, governments have allowed their subjects to voice opinions in the form of petitions, which have demanded a favour or the redressment of an injustice. To be effective, a petition had to mention the request, usually a motivation and always the name or names of the petitioners. As a result, grievances of ordinary people which were not written down anywhere else are now stored safely in the archives of the authorities to which the petitions were addressed. The petitions considered in this book, which come from all over the globe, offer rich and valuable sources for social historians

"In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the "modern state" once held. While war pushed the boundaries of the emerging fiscal military states of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rulers remained highly dependent on negotiations with competing elite groups and the private networks of contractors and financial intermediaries. Attempts to increase control over subjects often resulted in popular resistance, that in their turn set limits to and influenced the direction of the development of state institutions. Written in honour of the leading historian of war and state formation in the early modern Low Countries Marjolein 't Hart, the chapters gathered in this volume examine the main drivers, beneficiaries and discontents of state formation across and beyond Europe in the early modern period"--

This impressive collection offers the first systematic global and comparative history of textile workers over the course of 350 years. This period covers the major changes in wool and cotton production, and the global picture from pre-industrial times through to the twentieth century. After an introduction, the first part of the book is divided into twenty national studies on textile production over the period 1650-2000. To make them useful tools for international comparisons, each national overview is based on a consistent framework that defines the topics and issues to be treated in each chapter. The countries described have been selected to included the major historic producers of woollen and cotton fabrics, and the diversity of global experience, and include not only European nations, but also Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, Uruguay and the USA. The second part of the book consists of ten comparative papers on topics including globalization and trade, organization of production, space, identity, workplace, institutions, production relations, gender, ethnicity and the textile firm. These are based on the national overviews and additional literature, and will help apply current interdisciplinary and cultural concerns to a subject traditionally viewed largely through a social and economic history lens. Whilst offering a unique reference source for anyone interested in the history of a particular country's textile industry, the true strength of this project lies in its capacity of international comparison. By providing global comparative studies of key textile industries and workers, both geographically and thematically, this book provides a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of a major element of the world's economy. This allows historians to challenge many of the received ideas about globalization, for

AbstractThe essays collected in this volume demonstrate that during the age of revolution (1760s–1840s) most sectors of the maritime industries experienced higher levels of unrest than is usually recognized. Ranging across global contexts including the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans as well as the Caribbean, Andaman, and South China Seas, and exploring the actions of sailors, laborers, convicts, and slaves, this collection offers a fresh, sea-centered way of seeing the confluence between space, agency, and political economy during this crucial period. In this introduction we contend that the radicalism of the age of revolution can best be viewed as a geographically connected process, and that the maritime world was central to its multiple eruptions and global character. Mutiny therefore can be seen as part of something bigger and broader: what we have chosen to call maritime radicalism, a term as well as a concept that has had virtually no presence in the literature on the revolutionary era until now.

"In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the "modern state" once held. While war pushed the boundaries of the emerging fiscal military states of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rulers remained highly dependent on negotiations with competing elite groups and the private networks of contractors and financial intermediaries. Attempts to increase control over subjects often resulted in popular resistance, that in their turn set limits to and influenced the direction of the development of state institutions. Written in honour of the leading historian of war and state formation in the early modern Low Countries Marjolein 't Hart, the chapters gathered in this volume examine the main drivers, beneficiaries and discontents of state formation across and beyond Europe in the early modern period"--

Selling Sex in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: An Introduction /Magaly Rodríguez García , Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Lex Heerma van Voss -- Urban Overviews -- Europe -- Selling Sex in Amsterdam /Marion Pluskota -- Selling Sex in a Provincial Town: Prostitution in Bruges /Maja Mechant -- Sex for Sale in Florence /Michela Turno -- A Global History of Prostitution: London /Julia Laite -- Prostitution in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia /Philippa Hetherington -- The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in Paris /Susan P. Conner -- Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change /Yvonne Svanström -- Africa and the Middle East -- Prostitution in Cairo /Hanan Hammad and Francesca Biancani -- Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca /Liat Kozma -- Selling Sex in Istanbul /Mark David Wyers -- Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria's Urban Centres in a Historical Perspective /Mfon Umoren Ekpootu -- Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918–2010 /Deborah Bernstein , Hila Shamir , Nomi Levenkron and Dlila Amir -- The Americas -- A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos Aires /Cristiana Schettini -- Prostitution in the us: Chicago /Mary Linehan -- Prostitution in Havana /Amalia L. Cabezas -- Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521–2006 /Fernanda Nuñez and Pamela Fuentes -- The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosí (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries /Pascale Absi -- Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without Regulation /Thaddeus Blanchette and Cristiana Schettini -- Section 4Asia-Pacific -- Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and Present /Satarupa Dasgupta -- Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885–1954) /Isabelle Tracol-Huynh -- Prostitution in Shanghai /Sue Gronewold -- Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International Entrepôt /Shawna Herzog -- Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788 /Raelene Frances -- Thematic Overviews -- "We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers' Rights"*: Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600–2010 /Marion Pluskota -- Working and Living Conditions /Raelene Frances -- Migration and Prostitution1 /Nicole Keusch -- Prostitution and Colonial Relations /Liat Kozma -- Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work /Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette -- Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work /Mark David Wyers -- A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work /Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk -- The Social Profiles of Prostitutes /Maja Mechant -- Conclusion -- Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project /Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk , Magaly Rodríguez García and Lex Heerma van Voss.