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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674976153
  • 9780674981713
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.60973
LOC classification:
  • JK1759
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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