Freedom Bound
Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865
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- Author: Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Berkeley
- Date Published: November 2010
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521761390
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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.
Read more- The first truly exhaustive history of law and labor in early America
- Nails colonizing to the center of American history and legal history to the center of colonizing
- A seamless combination of labor and legal history with the history of race and of gender
- Empirically exhaustive and methodologically diverse – combines perspectives drawn from social and political history with intellectual history and cultural studies, and quantification with literary analysis
Awards
- Joint winner of the 2011 Bancroft Prize
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- Date Published: November 2010
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521761390
- length: 636 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 159 x 42 mm
- weight: 0.96kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus. 23 tables
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Prologue. Beginning: 'as much freedome in reason as may be'
Part I. Manning, Planting, Keeping:
1. Manning: 'setteynge many on worke'
2. Planting: 'directed and conducted thither'
3. Keeping (i): discourses of intrusion
4. Keeping (ii): English desires, designs
Part II. Poly-Olbion, or the Inside Narrative:
5. Packing: new inhabitants
6. Unpacking: received wisdoms
7. Changing: localities, legalities
Part III. 'What, Then, Is the American, This New Man?':
8. Modernizing: polity, economy, patriarchy
9. Enslaving: facies hippocratica
10. Ending: 'strange order of things!'.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- American Legal History Seminar
- At the Edges of Freedom: Liberalism and Postemancipation Societies in the Western Hemisphere
- Constituional History--the founding years
- History of American Law
- Race Gender Labor
- Senior Seminar: Imperialism in US LIterature & Culture
- U.S. Legal History
- labor law
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