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Informationen zum Autor John Wood Sweet is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina and coeditor (with Robert Appelbaum) of Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Klappentext "Sweet 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 Quarterly" Zusammenfassung "Sweet 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 Quarterly Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: After Origins PT. I. COMING TOGETHER 1. Common Ground 2. Negotiating Slavery 3. Strange Christians PT. II. LIVING TOGETHER 4. Strange Flesh 5. Men of Arms 6. Negotiating Freedom PT. III. MOVING APART 7. Conceiving Race 8. Manifest Destinies 9. Hard Scrabble Epilogue: Democracy in America Notes A Note on Sources Index
