Vicki Hsueh

Hybrid Constitutions

Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346326
• ISBN-10: 082234632X
• Artikelnr.: 28035073

Autorenporträt

Vicki Hsueh is Associate Professor of Political Science at Western Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
1. Hybrid Constitutionalisms: Unsettling the Empire of Uniformity 1
2. "Not Repugnant or Contrary": Law, Discretion, and Colonial Founding 25
3. Giving Orders: Theory and Practice in the Fundamental Constitutions of
Carolina 55
4. Under Negotiation: Treaty Power and Hybrid Constitutionalism in
Pennsylvania 83
5. Negotiating Culture: Plurality and Power in Hybrid Constitutionalism 113
Notes 135
Bibliography 163
Index