Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America
by
Vicki Hsueh
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation. Through detailed analyses of the founding of several seventeenth-century English proprietary colonies in North America, she reveals...