Civic Longing : : The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship /

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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Hyde, Carrie,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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