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Arbitrary Rule (Paperback)
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Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English
revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the
American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their
treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does
figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic
slavery? In Arbitrary Rule, Mary Nyquist explores connections
between political and chattel slavery by excavating the tradition
of Western political thought that justifies actively opposing
tyranny. She argues that as powerful rhetorical and conceptual
constructs, Greco-Roman political liberty and slavery reemerge at
the time of early modern Eurocolonial expansion; they help to
create racialized "free" national identities and their "unfree"
counterparts in non-European nations represented as inhabiting an
earlier, privative age. Arbitrary Rule is the first book to tackle
political slavery's discursive complexity, engaging
Eurocolonialism, political philosophy, and literary studies, areas
of study too often kept apart.
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