The Birth Certificate

An American History

Susan J. Pearson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2024
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7933-4 (ISBN)

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Award-winning historian Susan Pearson traces the birth certificate’s two-hundred-year history to explain when, how, and why they came to matter so much in the United States. This is a fascinating biography of a piece of paper that grounds our understanding of how those who live in the United States are considered Americans.

For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver's license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state and federal benefits. Yet as Donald Trump and his fellow "birthers" reminded us when they claimed that Barack Obama wasn't an American citizen, it plays a central role in determining identity and citizenship.

In The Birth Certificate: An American History, award-winning historian Susan J. Pearson traces the document's two-hundred-year history to explain when, how, and why birth certificates came to matter so much in the United States. Deftly weaving together social, political, and legal history, The Birth Certificate is a fascinating biography of a piece of paper that grounds our understanding of how those who live in the United States are considered Americans.

Susan J. Pearson is associate professor of history at Northwestern University and the author of The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.12.2023
Zusatzinfo	20 halftones
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4696-7933-7 / 1469679337
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-7933-4 / 9781469679334
Zustand	Neuware