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Contents: 1. Introduction: The Body Politic Part I - Foundings and the Problem of the Past 2. Notes on the States of America: Jeffersonian Democracy and the Production of a National Past 3. Becoming Unnatural: The Federalist's Techniques of Government Part II - Reconstruction and its Aftermath: The Relocation of the Past 4. Sexual Reconstruction: Gender, Political Friendship and the New Techniques of Citizenship 5. In the Beginning Was a Crime: Lynching, Rape and the Tragedy of American Political Thought 6. Postscript, Giving Reasons: Rethinking Toleration for a Plural World
In this text, Catherine Holland advances a thesis that challenges
the dominant schools of thought concerning the liberal tradition in
the United States. Organized around two founding moments - the
American Revolution and ratification of the Constitution and the
period of Reconstruction following the American Civil War - the
book identifies a recurring, symbolic figure at the heart of
American dilemmas of citizenship and nation, namely the human body.
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