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--United States--History.

Political rights.

State, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Suggesting points of comparison between an American narrative of state development--previously thought to be exceptional--and those of Europe and Latin America, the contributors break fresh ground by investigating citizenship in its historical context rather than by reference only to its capacity to confer privileges.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813933504

0813933501

OCLC:

827947235