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Counting Bodies - Population in Colonial American Writing (Paperback)
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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 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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