Civic Longing : : The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship / / Carrie Hyde.
No Constitutional definition of citizenship existed until the 14th Amendment in 1868. Carrie Hyde looks at the period between the Revolution and the Civil War when the cultural and juridical meaning of citizenship was still up for grabs. She recovers numerous speculative traditions that made and rem...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- I. READING “CITIZENSHIP” -- Introduction -- 1. The Retroactive Invention of Citizenship -- II. THE HIGHER LAWS OF CITIZENSHIP -- 2. “Citizenship in Heaven” -- 3. Citizens of Nature -- III. THE LETTERED CITIZEN -- 4. The Elsewhere of Citizenship -- 5. Stateless Fictions -- Coda: Wong Kim Ark and “The Man Without a Country” -- Appendix: Bible Translations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Summary: | No Constitutional definition of citizenship existed until the 14th Amendment in 1868. Carrie Hyde looks at the period between the Revolution and the Civil War when the cultural and juridical meaning of citizenship was still up for grabs. She recovers numerous speculative traditions that made and remade citizenship’s meaning in this early period. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674981713 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604184 9783110603187 9783110606621 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674981713?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Carrie Hyde. |