Ai margini del contado : Terra, signoria ed élites locali a Sabbion e nel territorio di Cologna Veneta (secoli XII-XIII) / / Attilio Stella

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910774896503321
• Autore: Stella Attilio
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Florence : , : Firenze University Press, , 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Disciplina: 146.32
• Soggetti: Dialectic
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Nei secoli XII-XIII, quando in Italia nacquero i comuni cittadini, il mondo contadino conobbe profondi mutamenti, e le comunità rurali, sempre più popolose e organizzate, si imposero come interlocutori nella dialettica fra comuni e signorie rurali grazie soprattutto all'affermarsi di nuove élites locali. Il volume offre una lettura critica di questa dialettica alla luce della ricca documentazione relativa al villaggio di Sabbion, presso Cologna Veneta, ai margini orientali del contado veronese. La documentazione, conservata negli archivi di San Giorgio in Braida di Verona, detentrice della signoria su Sabbion, ha permesso di analizzare nel dettaglio e in chiave comparativa i principali mutamenti socioeconomici e politici di una società ridotta e omogenea, ma dotata di una sua "agency".; In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, during the emergence of the Italian communes, rural communities, increasingly populated and organised, imposed themselves as crucial actors in the relationship between city communes and rural lords, mostly thanks to the establishment of new local élites. The book offers a critical reassessment of this threefold dialectic in light of the rich documentation concerning Sabbion, near Cologna Veneta, in the eastern outskirts of the Veronese contado. This documentation has been preserved in the archives of San Giorgio in Braida of Verona, holder of the lordship over Sabbion, and enabled a detailed comparative analysis of the principal socio-economic and political ; changes of a small and relatively homogeneous society, its actions and agency.

Organizing Democracy : Reflections on the Rise of Political Organizations in the Nineteenth Century / / edited by Henk te Velde, Maartje Janse

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910255259303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
• ISBN: 9783319500201; 3319500201
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2017.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 295 p.)
• Collana: Palgrave Studies in Political History, , 2946-5184
• Disciplina: 941
• Soggetti: Great Britain - History; Europe - History - 1492-; United States - History; World politics; World history; History of Britain and Ireland; History of Modern Europe; US History; Political History; World History, Global and Transnational History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction: Perspectives on Political Organizing; Henk te Velde and Maartje Janse -- 2. 'Association is a mighty engine': Mass Organization and the Machine Metaphor, 1825-1840; Maartje Janse -- 3. 'Petition! Petition!! Petition!!!': Petitioning and Political Organization in Britain, c. 1800-1850; Henry Miller -- 4. Can 'The People' Speak?: Popular Meetings and the Ambiguities of Popular Sovereignty in the United States, 1816-1828; Reeve Huston -- 5. Law and Voluntary Association ; in the Early United States; Kevin Butterfield -- 6. Organizing in a Moment of Madness: Political Meetings & Clubs in 1848; Geerten Waling -- 7. The Democratic Framing of Protest in the Age of Revolution. The Language of Civil Rights and the Organization of Petitions and Demonstrations in Belgium, 1830-1848 -- 8. Brilliant Failure: Political Parties under the Republican Era in France (1870-1914); Nicolas Roussellier -- 9. The German National Association 1859-1867: Rise and Fall of a Proto-Party; Andreas Biefang -- 10. Manipulation or Participation? Membership Inclusion in the Party Organizations of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party and the British National Liberal Federation; Anne Heyer -- 11. Agitate, Educate, Organize: Radical Networks in New York in the Early 1880s; Robert Allen -- 12. Party versus Party: Beatrice Webb and the Ascent of the British Labour Party; Hanneke Hoekstra -- 13. The Domestication of a Machine. The Debate about Political Parties around; Henk te Velde .
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the new types of political organization that emerged in Western Europe and the United States during the nineteenth century, from popular meetings to single-issue organizations and political parties. The development of these has often been used to demonstrate a movement towards democratic representation or political institutionalization. This volume challenges the idea that the development of 'democracy' is a story of rise and progress at all. It is rather a story of continuous but never completely satisfying attempts of interpreting the rule of the people. Taking the perspective of nineteenth-century organizers as its point of departure, this study shows that contemporaries hardly distinguished between petitioning, meeting and association. The attraction of organizing was that it promised representation, accountability and popular participation. Only in the twentieth century did parties reliable partners for the state in averting revolution, managing the unpredictable effects of universal suffrage, and reforming society. This collection analyzes them in their earliest stage, as just one of several types of civil society organizations, that did not differ that much from each other. The promise of organization, and the experiments that resulted from it, deeply impacted modern politics. .