Introduction: Open country -- Part I. Theories of naturalization. Naturalization in history ; Ideas of naturalization -- Part II. Fictions of naturalization. Law of the foreign father ; Open-door domestic fiction -- Part III. Relations of naturalization. Unnatural-born subjects.
Summary:
"Bringing together eighteenth-century legal discourse and prose fiction, the author gives a cross-disciplinary account of immigration history. She tells a revisionist history in which, for jurists, philosophers, and fiction writers, naturalization is a creative mechanism for national expansion"-- Provided by publisher.
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