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Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors of Emancipation
Hoang Gia Phan
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Paperback. Illuminates the historical tensions between the legal paradigms of citizenship and contract, and in the emergence of free labour ideology in American culture Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTS; JPVH1; LNDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and indentured labor. Bonds of Citizenship illuminates the historical tensions between the legal paradigms of citizenship and contract, and in the emergence of free labor ideology in American culture.
Phan argues that in the age of Emancipation the cultural attributes of free personhood became identified with the legal rights and privileges of the citizen, and that individual freedom thus became identified ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
America and the Long 19th Century
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814771709
SKU
V9780814771709
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About Hoang Gia Phan
Hoang Gia Phan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Reviews for Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors of Emancipation
Phan (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) provides an original look at the cultural work of nation building....Readers with a rudimentary understanding of literary and political theoryand an awareness of economic historywill be best positioned to benefit from the author's extensive research into the legal, political, and literary writing of this important era, although many audiences will profit from his synthesis of ... Read more