![]() | Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship Subjects: Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Citizenship -- United States -- Philosophy -- History; Citizenship defines the U.S. political experiment, but the modern legal category that it now names is a relatively recent invention. There was no Constitutional definition of citizenship until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, almost a century after the Declaration of Independence. Civic Longing looks at the fascinating prehistory of U.S. citizenship in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, when the cultural and juridical meaning of citizenship--as much as its scope--was still up for grabs. Carrie Hyde recovers the numerous cultural forms through which the meaning of citizenship was provisionally made and remade in the early United States. |
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