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American States of Nature Mark Somos Harvard University John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow e state of nature, man’s pre-political condition, is as fundamental a notion in western intellectual history as liberty, property, or the pursuit of happiness, and one that British, American, German, and French reformers and revolutionaries made just as much their own. Yet unlike liberty, the state of nature has vanished from our understanding of the American Revolution and its original designs for a new state, citizenry, and their natural and man-made environments. I aim to re- cover this critical discourse at the heart of the Founding, and its place in the histo- riographies of scientific, environmental, and constitutional thought. JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY SHORT-TERM FELLOWS TALKS IN THE MACMILLAN READING ROOM Wednesday, April 22, 2015 ∙ 4:00 p.m. MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library Talk at 4 p.m., Q & A follows with a “show & tell” of relevant JCB materials For more information, call 401-863-2725, or email: [email protected] eodor de Bry, America, pt 1, Frankfurt, 1590. Original in the John Carter Brown Library.
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American States of NatureMark Somos
Harvard UniversityJohn Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow
The state of nature, man’s pre-political condition, is as fundamental a notion in western intellectual history as liberty, property, or the pursuit of happiness, and one that British, American, German, and French reformers and revolutionaries made just as much their own. Yet unlike liberty, the state of nature has vanished from our understanding of the American Revolution and its original designs for a new state, citizenry, and their natural and man-made environments. I aim to re-cover this critical discourse at the heart of the Founding, and its place in the histo-riographies of scientific, environmental, and constitutional thought.
JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARYSHORT-TERM FELLOWS TALKS
IN THE MACMILLAN READING ROOM
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 ∙ 4:00 p.m.MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library
Talk at 4 p.m., Q & A follows with a “show & tell” of relevant JCB materials
For more information, call 401-863-2725, or email: [email protected]
Theodor de Bry, America, pt 1, Frankfurt, 1590. Original in the John Carter Brown Library.
