Undisciplined : : Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 / / Nihad Farooq.

In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be “made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both conteste...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:America and the long 19th century.
Physical Description:1 online resource (262 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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