State and citizen : British America and the early United States / edited by Peter Thompson and Peter S. Onuf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, Peter, 1960-

Onuf, Peter S.

Series:

Jeffersonian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--United States--History.

Citizenship.

Political rights.

History.

United States.

Political rights--United States--History.

State, The.

Physical Description:

xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction: state and citizen in British America and the early United States / Peter S. Onuf

Subjects by allegiance to the king?: debating status and power for subjects

and Slaves

through the religious debates of the early British Atlantic / Holly Brewer

The laws of war and peace: legitimating slavery in the age of the American Revolution / Eliga H. Gould

"The great field of human Concerns": the states, the union, and the problem of citizenship in the era of the American Revolution / Douglas Bradburn

Bringing the state system back in: the significance of the union in early American history, 1763-1865 / David C. Hendrickson

"A mongrel kind of government": The U.S. Constitution, the federal union, and the origins of the American state / Max M. Edling

Patriarchal magistrates, associated improvers, and monitoring militias: visions of self-government in the early American republic, 1760-1840 / John L. Brooke

Imagined economies: economic nationalism in the American and Confederate independence movements / John Majewski

State, nation, and citizen in the Confederate crucible of war / Paul Quigley

The enduring legacy of nineteenth-century governance in the United States: the emergence of the associative order / Brian Balogh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813933498

9780813933504

0813933501

OCLC:

798615793

Publisher Number:

99953493925