State and Citizen

British America and the Early United States

Peter Thompson, Peter S. Onuf, Peter Thompson, Peter S. Onuf

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9780813933504
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early American History
• Index: History

Pointing the way to a new history of the transformation of British subjects into American citizens, State and Citizen challenges the presumption that the early American state was weak by exploring the changing legal and political meaning of citizenship. The volume's distinguished contributors cast new light on the shift from subjecthood to citizenship during the American Revolution by showing that the federal state played a much greater part than is commonly supposed.

Going beyond master narratives—celebratory or revisionist—that center on founding principles, the contributors argue that geopolitical realities and the federal state were at the center of early American political development. The volume's editors, Peter Thompson and Peter S. Onuf, bring together political science and historical methodologies to demonstrate that citizenship was a political as well as a legal concept. The American state, this collection argues, was formed and evolved in a more dialectical relationship between citizens and government authority than is generally acknowledged. Suggesting points of comparison between an American narrative of state development—previously thought to be exceptional—and those of Europe and Latin America, the contributors break fresh ground by investigating citizenship in its historical context rather than by reference only to its capacity to confer privileges.

INDEX

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

Aan het Volk van Nederland (To the People of the Netherlands) (van der Capellen)

Aaronic priesthood

Abenakis

Act of Uniformity (1662)

Acton, Lord (John Dalberg-Acton), on political centralization

Adams, Charles Francis, on Reconstruction

Adams, Henry

on union

Adams, John

on bicameralism

on colonial rights

on congressional authority

“Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law”

on imperial trade regulation

on Independence

on jury trials

on taxation

Thoughts on Government

Adams, John Quincy

on foreign policy

on sectional conflict

on union

Addison, Alexander, on common law

African Americans

in Continental Army

in First Rhode Island Regiment

Africans

in Britain

conversion of

and law

Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933)

Ajumako

alcohol, regulation of

Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)

aliens: and citizenship

in C.S.A.

rights of

and subjects

in U.S. states

in Virginia. See also naturalization

allegiance

in U.S.

Allestree, Richard, Sermon for Slaves

almanacs

publication history

American Association for Labor Legislation

“American Commonwealth” (Bryce)

American Economics Association

American Farm Bureau Federation

American Medical Association

American Red Cross

American Revolution: ideological change

political economy

American System (Clay)

Ames, Fisher; predicts civil war

on state loyalties

“ancient constitution”

Anderson, Fred, and Andrew Cayton, on war in American history

Andros, Edmund (Governor of Virginia), on press freedom

Anglican Church

bishopric

and common law

in Massachusetts

Anticipations of the Future (Ruffin)

Antifederalists

antislavery

and international law

in England and France

Republicans

in Revolutionary era

Argentina

Armitage, David, on Declaration of Independence

army, Confederate

conscription

as nationalizing institution

army, Continental

African Americans in

army, Royal

army, U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers

Articles of Confederation

amendment of

and citizenship

comity (Art. IV)

and internal police

interstate conflict (Art. IX)

ratification (1781)

and sovereignty

and state governments

and union

U.S. Constitution and

war and peace (Art. VI)

Association (1774)

associations, voluntary: and citizenship

and improvement

“associative order”

Athenians, and slavery

attainder

Augustus (Roman emperor)

Australia

“Autobiography of Martin Van Buren”

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

Balentine, Solomon, and C...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Subjects by Allegiance to the King?
• The Laws of War and Peace:
• “The Great Field of Human Concerns”:
• Bringing the State System Back In:
• “A Mongrel Kind of Government”:
• Patriarchal Magistrates, Associated Improvers, and Monitoring Militias:
• Imagined Economies:
• State, Nation, and Citizen in the Confederate Crucible of War
• The Enduring Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Governance in the United States:
• List of Contributors
• Index