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State and Citizen: British America and the Early United States

by Peter Thompson , Peter S. Onuf
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780813933498
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press
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  • Pages: 328
  • Original Price: USD 57.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 613 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)

Pointing the way to a new history of the transformation of British subjects into American citizens, State and Citizen challenges the presumption that the early American state was weak by exploring the changing legal and political meaning of citizenship. The volume's distinguished contributors cast new light on the shift from subjecthood to citizenship during the American Revolution by showing that the federal state played a much greater part than is commonly supposed.

Going beyond master narratives--celebratory or revisionist--that center on founding principles, the contributors argue that geopolitical realities and the federal state were at the center of early American political development. The volume's editors, Peter Thompson and Peter S. Onuf, bring together political science and historical methodologies to demonstrate that citizenship was a political as well as a legal concept. The American state, this collection argues, was formed and evolved in a more dialectical relationship between citizens and government authority than is generally acknowledged. 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.

Peter Thompson, Sydney L. Mayer University Lecturer in American History at the University of Oxford, is the author of Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America (Virginia).

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