Coping With Peace After a Debacle

Karonen, Petri

doi:10.1080/03468750802038785

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“…Together with a swathe of other measures, such as trying to get the economy back on track, organizing oath ceremonies, and auditing potentially corrupt public servants, it is likely the reception and treatment of petitions pacified a Swedish society caught in a transition or 'peace crisis', as referred to by Petri Karonen. 25 These different examples seem to show us that there can be a connection between the use of petitions and the resolution of potentially volatile situations. The role of petitions described in Luebke's article is perhaps unusual, but all examples highlight how petitions are thought to have been used in commonly volatile situations: increased taxation, revolt and war-weariness.…”

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The problem with early-modern petitions: safety valve or powder keg?

Almbjär

2019

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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In this article the author critically discusses the notion of petitions as a peaceful way of interaction between rulers and subjects in early-modern Europe. Specifically, he targets the idea of petitions as a safety valve. According to this idea, petitions enabled subjects to vent displeasure to the authorities; by doing so they grew less restive and more content with the strictly hierarchical and unequal structures of early-modern Europe. The author questions how often petitions really performed this function, firstly by considering the limited social background of the petitioners and then the many rules and hindrances petitioners faced. These rules were, thirdly, put in place because petitions could galvanize and mobilize people into political action. Fourthly, previous research has underestimated the complicated link between petitioning and legitimacy. It is not at all certain that petitions increased the legitimacy of the political system. Clearly, the complexity of the issue warrants new approaches. The empirical evidence for this article mainly comes from early-modern Sweden, Denmark-Norway, England and the Holy Roman Empire. Consequently, this article weds petition research usually separated by language barriers, providing a fuller European perspective where Northern Europe is fully integrated into the discussion.

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The problem with early-modern petitions: safety valve or powder keg?

Almbjär

2019

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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“…It might even be preferable to use the concept of not-war (icke-krig) instead of peace. 4 In this study the concept of wartime is used for practical reasons to describe a formal state of war and peacetime a formal state of peace. But the validity of these concepts in connection with the military supply system will be critically examined.…”

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The Provisioning of the Military Construction Workers of Sveaborg 1747–1752: The Magazine Supply System in Peacetime

Hatakka

2015

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Studies of the military logistics in the early modern period have mainly focused on wartime up to this date. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that supply systems were important during both war and peace. Stores of grain and bread were needed to supply garrisons and prepare for sudden war. Food was also needed if an army was mobilized and used as a workforce in large-scale construction works. This can be clearly seen in the construction work of Sveaborg’s sea fortress in the middle of the eighteenth century. Thousands of soldiers were commanded to take part in it, which required careful planning to keep them supplied annually through the intensive construction periods from spring to autumn. As the soldiers could not buy enough food by themselves, the Crown had to give them bread for sustenance. This in turn required purchasing large quantities of grain, grinding the grain into flour and baking the flour into bread. To manage all this, the whole supply system had to evolve. New magazines, bakeries and mills were established and new personnel hired. Although the construction of Sveaborg was an extraordinary phenomenon, many of these changes had a long lasting legacy.

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