State and citizen British America and the early United States / edited by Peter Thompson and Peter S. Onuf. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: state and citizen in British America and the early United States / Subjects by allegiance to the king?: debating status and power for subjects -- and Slaves -- through the religious debates of the early British Atlantic / The laws of war and peace: legitimating slavery in the age of the American Revolution / "The great field of human Concerns": the states, the union, and the problem of citizenship in the era of the American Revolution / Bringing the state system back in: the significance of the union in early American history, 1763-1865 / "A mongrel kind of government": The U.S. Constitution, the federal union, and the origins of the American state / Patriarchal magistrates, associated improvers, and monitoring militias: visions of self-government in the early American republic, 1760-1840 / Imagined economies: economic nationalism in the American and Confederate independence movements / State, nation, and citizen in the Confederate crucible of war / The enduring legacy of nineteenth-century governance in the United States: the emergence of the associative order / Peter S. Onuf -- Holly Brewer -- Eliga H. Gould -- Douglas Bradburn -- David C. Hendrickson -- Max M. Edling -- John L. Brooke -- John Majewski -- Paul Quigley -- Brian Balogh.



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Citizenship--History.--United States
Political rights--History.--United States
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Electronic Books.

JK1759 / .S738 2013