The citizenship revolution politics and the creation of the American union, 1774-1804 /
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| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Jeffersonian America.
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Table of Contents:
- The revolutionary moment: natural rights, the people, and the creation of American citizenship
- State v. nation: Federalism and the problem of nationhood
- The politics of citizenship: expatriation, naturalization, and the rise of party
- "True Americans": the Federalist ideal and the legislation of national citizenship
- States' rights and the rights of man: the opposition to the alien and sedition acts
- "Hordes of foreigners": the immigrant moment and the potential of the hyphenated citizen
- White citizen, Black denizen: the racial ranks of American citizenship
- The Aristotelian moment: ending the American Revolution
- Conclusion: the fall of the union and the rise of nation.