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

• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, c2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.60973/09033
• Soggetto topico: Citizenship - United States - History; Political rights - United States - History; State, The
• Altri autori: ThompsonPeter <1960-> OnufPeter S
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: State and citizen
• ISBN: 0-8139-3350-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820925103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Jeffersonian America