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Counting Bodies - Population in Colonial American Writing (Hardcover)
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Counting Bodies - Population in Colonial American Writing (Hardcover)
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Quantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census
forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that today it
appears ahistorical. Yet before the modern colonial era, there was
neither a word for "population" in the sense of numbers of people,
nor agreement that monarchs should count their subjects. Much of
the work of naturalizing the view that people can be represented as
populations took place far outside government institutions and
philosophical treatises. It occurred instead in the work of
colonial writers who found in the act of counting the "vast
numbers" of Indians who held her captive a way to imagine fixed
boundaries between intermingling groups. Counting Bodies explores
the imaginative, personal, and narrative writings that performed
the cultural work of normalizing the enumeration of bodies. By
repositioning and unearthing a literary pre-history of population
science, the book shows that representing individuals as numbers
was a central element of colonial projects. Early colonial writings
that describe routine and even intimate interactions offer a window
into the way people wove the quantifiable forms of subjectivity
made available by population counts into everyday life. Whether
trying to make sense of plantation slavery, frontier warfare, rapid
migration, or global commerce, writers framed questions about human
relationships across different cultures and generations in terms of
population.
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