Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865

ISBN-13: 9780521137775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 636 str.

Christopher Tomlins

Opis

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America a history of colonizing, work, and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire process. Freedom Bound tells how colonies were planted in occupied territories, how they were populated with migrants free and unfree to do the work of colonizing, and how the newcomers secured possession. It tells of the new civic lives that seemed possible in new commonwealths, and of the constraints that kept many from enjoying them. It follows the story long past the end of the eighteenth century until the American Civil War, when just for a moment it seemed that freedom might finally be unbound."

Recenzje

“ Freedom Bound … is long and complex.  But it is worth the effort.  The work is suffused with an extraordinary and subtle sensibility; and there are even flashes of downright poetry.  This is an important book.  Awesome, in fact.  And also enriching: a real contribution.”  Lawrence M. Friedman, Law and Politics Book Review

Spis treści

Prologue. Beginning: 'as much freedome in reason as may be'; Part I. Manning, Planting, Keeping: 1. Manning: 'setteynge many on worke'; 2. Planting: 'directed and conducted thither'; 3. Keeping (i): discourses of intrusion; 4. Keeping (ii): English desires, designs; Part II. Poly-Olbion, or the Inside Narrative: 5. Packing: new inhabitants; 6. Unpacking: received wisdoms; 7. Changing: localities, legalities; Part III. 'What, Then, Is the American, This New Man?': 8. Modernizing: polity, economy, patriarchy; 9. Enslaving: facies hippocratica; 10. Ending: 'strange order of things!'.