Subjects and Sovereign - Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

Subjects and Sovereigns reexamines the traditional bond between subject and sovereign and argues that this relationship endured as a powerful site for claims-making in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: Of Sovereigns and Subjects


• Chapter One: The Laws of Subjecthood


• Chapter Two: The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance


• Chapter Three: Real and Pretended Subjects: Mediating Subjecthood in the Mediterranean


• Chapter Four: His Britannick Majesty's New Subjects: The Rights of Subjects in Grenada and Quebec


• Chapter Five: The Promises and Perils of Subjecthood and Jurisdiction: Calcutta


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Hannah Weiss Muller is Assistant Professor of History at Brandeis University.

Summary

Subjects and Sovereigns reexamines the traditional bond between subject and sovereign and argues that this relationship endured as a powerful site for claims-making in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Weiss Muller, Hannah Weiss (Assistant Professor of Histo Muller
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780190465810
• ISBN: 978-0-19-046581-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politikwissenschaft, Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, European History, British Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Political science & theory, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Colonialism and imperialism, Civil rights & citizenship