Hybrid Constitutions: Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America

by Vicki Hsueh

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 how diverse constitutional thought and practice were at the time, and how colonial ambitions were advanced through cruelty toward indigenous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082234632X
• ISBN13: 9780822346326
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"