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Subjects and sovereign : bonds of belonging in the eighteenth-century British empire / Hannah Weiss Muller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muller, Hannah Weiss, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Citizenship.
- Law--Great Britain--Colonies--History--18th century.
- Law.
- Allegiance--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Allegiance.
- Monarchy--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Monarchy.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 'Subjects and Sovereigns' reexamines the traditional bond between subject and sovereign and argues that this relationship endured as a powerful site for claims-making in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
- Contents:
- Introduction : of subjects and sovereigns
- The laws of subjecthood
- The free-born subject's inheritance
- Real and pretended subjects : mediating subjecthood in the Mediterranean
- His Britannick majesty's new subjects : the rights of subjects in Grenada and Quebec
- The promises and perils of subjecthood and jurisdiction : Calcutta
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 5, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-046583-2
- 0-19-046584-0
- 0-19-046582-4
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