The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America

by David Kazanjian

An illuminating look at the concepts of race, nation, and equality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America

The idea that "all men are created equal" is as close to a universal tenet as exists in American history. In this hard-hitting book, David Kazanjian interrogates this tenet, exploring transformative flash points in early America when the belief in equality came into contact with seemingly contrary ideas about race...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816642389
• ISBN13: 9780816642380
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"