Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization

by Stephanie Degooyer

Book Overview

An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.

Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the idea of feudal allegiance and integrate new subjects into their nations. At the same time, writers of prose fiction were attempting to undo centuries of rules about who could--and who could...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421443929
• ISBN13: 9781421443928
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher