Freedom bound : law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580-1865 / Christopher Tomlins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomlins, Christopher L., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--United States--History.

Labor.

Colonization.

United States.

History.

United States--Colonization.

Labor laws and legislation--United States--History.

Labor laws and legislation.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States--History--1783-1865.

United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

Economic conditions.

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Social conditions.

National characteristics, American.

Physical Description:

xvi, 617 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Summary:

"Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America. It is a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.

"Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire process. Freedom Bound tells how colonies were planted in occupied territories, how they were populated with migrants - free and unfree - to do the work of colonizing, and how the newcomers secured possession. It tells of the new civic lives that seemed possible in new commonwealths, and of the constraints that kept many from enjoying them. It follows the story long past the end of the eighteenth century until the American Civil War, when - just for a moment - it seemed that freedom might finally be unbound"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Prologue. Beginning: "as much freedome in reason as may be"; Part I. Manning, Planting, Keeping: 1. Manning: "setteynge many on worke"; 2. Planting: "directed and conducted thither"; 3. Keeping (i): discourses of intrusion; 4. Keeping (ii): English desires, designs; Part II. Poly-Olbion; or The Inside Narrative: 5. Packing: new inhabitants; 6. Unpacking: received wisdoms; 7. Changing: localities, legalities; Part III. "What, then, is the American, this new man?": 8. Modernizing: polity, economy, patriarchy; 9. Enslaving: facies hippocratica; 10. Ending: "strange order of things!".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521761390

0521761395

0521137772

9780521137775

OCLC:

503243779

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