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Hybrid Constitutions
Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America
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English
Published/Copyright:
2010
About this book
Demonstrates that in the early English colonies in North America, constitutional thought and practice were more diverse than historians and political theorists have thought.
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Vicki Hsueh is Associate Professor of Political Science at Western Washington University.
Reviews
“In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh challenges the prevailing tendency in political theory to find in early-modern European colonialism the origins of modern liberalism’s exclusions and inclination toward uniformity. Through her detailed analyses of charters, constitutions, and treaties, she shows that colonial encounters—including encounters and negotiations among Europeans themselves, as well as between Europeans and Native Americans—were much more complex, contingent, and contested than broad-brush accounts would imply. This subtle and impressive book will be important for colonial historians and political theorists alike.” —David Armitage, author of The Declaration of Independence: A Global History
“[S]ignificant and exciting. . .offer[s] compelling readings of important texts and thinkers, and suggest[s] whole new trajectories of research linking the American past and present to an evolving American future.”
-- Andrew R. Murphy Perspectives on Politics
“Hybrid Constitutions is very clearly written and provides a succinct and interesting overview of selected early constitutions and charters and historical writing about them that initiates an important debate. As an introduction to this literature and an intervention into colonial and sovereignty studies Hsueh's book is a helpful resource.”
-- Jacqueline Stevens Theory & Event
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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1 Hybrid Constitutionalisms
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2 “Not Repugnant or Contrary”
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3 Giving Orders
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4 Under Negotiation
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5 Negotiating Culture
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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January 27, 2010
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9780822391616
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