Freedom bound : law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580-1865

Publication Data

• Title Freedom bound : law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580-1865
• Author Christopher L. Tomlins
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

Prologue. Beginning : "as much freedome in reason as may be
"
pt. I. MANNING, PLANNING, 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
pt. II. POLY-OLBION ; OR, THE INSIDE NARRARIVE. 5. Packing : new inhabitants
6. Unpacking : received wisdoms
7. Changing : localities, legalities
pt. III. "WHAT, THEN, IS THE AMERICAN, THIS NEW MAN?". 8. Modernizing : polity, economy, patriarchy
9. Enslaving : facies hippocratica; 10. Ending : "strange order of things!"

Topics

• Labor :: United States :: History
• Labor laws and legislation :: United States :: History
• National characteristics, American
• United States :: Colonization
• United States :: History :: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• United States :: History :: Revolution, 1775-1783
• United States :: History :: 1783-1865
• United States :: Economic conditions :: To 1865
• United States :: Social conditions :: To 1865
• United States

Freedom bound : law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580-1865 by Christopher L. Tomlins. ISBN 9780521137775. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.