James H. Kettner
Author
Publisher
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
he concept of citizenship that achieved full legal form and force in mid-nineteenth-century America had English roots in the sense that it was the product of a theoretical and legal development that extended over three hundred years. This prize-winning volume describes and explains the process by which the cirumstances of life in the New World transformed the quasi-medieval ideas of seventeenth-century English jurists about subjectship, community,...