Supplient très humblement…We Humbly Beg… : Les pétitions collectives et le développement de la sphère publique au Québec, 1764-1791

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Supplient très humblement…We Humbly Beg… : Les pétitions collectives et le développement de la sphère publique au Québec, 1764-1791
Abstract
The author examines the contribution of collective petitions to the development of Quebec's public sphere in the second half of the eighteenth century. She examines these using the concepts of public, public sphere, public opinion, and spaces of sociability. Her study is based on a detailed analysis of some 278 collective petitions from the time of the establishment of civil government in 1764 until the creation of the parliamentary system in 1791. The author argues that in the absence of traditional representative institutions, collective petitioning to colonial authorities became an essential tool for influencing political and administrative decisions. A long-standing practice in England but rare in New France, collective petitioning allowed for the participation of a broad swathe of the colony's population in the colonial public sphere: old and new subjects, men and women, elites and ordinary people.
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Master's Thesis
University
Université Laval
Place
Québec
Date
2013
Language
fr
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Giral, Gisela. “Supplient très humblement…We Humbly Beg… : Les pétitions collectives et le développement de la sphère publique au Québec, 1764-1791.” Master’s Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://theses.ulaval.ca/archimede/?wicket:interface=:3::::
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