Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 1,114 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780511850998
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780521137775, 9780521761390, 9780511778575, 9780511784750, 9780511789946, 9780511787331, 9780511788475
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 04/07/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Christopher Tomlins
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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