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Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865

Christopher Tomlins

3.5 AVERAGE

mattrohn's review

slow-paced

3.0

This book feels weird because there are multiple major arguments (primarily that English conceptios of international law in the early modern period was designed to enforce an imperial strategy of manning\planting\keeping, and that regional legal cultures in the early American colonies were mostly path dependent on the legal cultures in the regions of England that the settlers had moved from) that just don't really interact even though they're pulling in different directions. Each section makes its argument well and provides good sourcing, but this central question is left basically unaddressed in the book