Bodies Politic
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Bodies PoliticNegotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830John Wood SweetAt once detailed and sweeping, social and political, archival and synthetic. . . . This book is the best application yet to early American history of postcolonial theory.--American Historical ReviewAn ambitious and persuasive account of the ways the political inclusion of some groups and not others connected the colonial era through the Revolution to the early American republic.--Journal of American HistorySweet offers scholars a capacious history of race in the North and a primer for thinking about the relationship between cultures and identities. . . . Bodies Politic is deeply researched and richly detailed.--William and Mary QuarterlyThis superb study explores the origins of that ironic definition of democracy as universal freedom and racial inequality. . . . Sophisticated and engaging. . . . Highly recommended.--ChoiceIn this sweeping analysis of colonialism and its legacies, John Wood Sweet explores how the ongoing interaction of conquered Indians, English settlers, and enslaved Africans in New England produced a closely interwoven, though radically divided, society. The coming together of these diverse peoples profoundly shaped the character of colonial New England, the meanings of the Revolution in the North, and the making of American democracy writ large.Critically engaged with current debates about the dynamics of culture, racial identity, and postcolonial politics, this innovative and intellectually capacious work is grounded in a remarkable array of evidence. What emerges from this analysis of colonial and early national censuses, newspapers, diaries, letters, court records, printed works, and visual images are the dramatic confrontations and subtle negotiations by which Indians, Africans, and Anglo-Americans defined their respective places in early New England. Citizenship, as Sweet reveals, was defined in meeting houses as well as in courthouses, in
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