American States of Nature

Know about the book -

American States of Nature is written by Mark Somos and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190909560 (ISBN 10) and 9780190909567 (ISBN 13).

American States of Nature transforms our understanding of the American Revolution and the early makings of the Constitution. Surveying thousands of texts produced between 1761 and 1775, including hundreds of archival discoveries, this book shows that the state of nature was among the most crucial revolutionary concepts. The founding generation drew not only on English sources, such as Hobbes and Locke, but also on Grotius, Pufendorf, Rousseau, Vattel, and others, to develop an original and distinct American view of the state of nature as a natural community where colonists could pool their rights to self-defense and self-government.