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The exact phrase, 'state of nature,' was used thousands of times in the British colonies between 1630 and 1810, in juridical, theological, medical, political, economic and other senses. From the plurality of meanings, a distinctive American state of nature discourse started to emerge by the 1760s. It combined existing European and American semantic ranges and sidelined others in moments of intense contestation, for instance during the 1765-66 Stamp Act crisis, and the 1774 First Continental Congress. This text examines how the increasingly distinct and coherent American state of nature came to justify independence at least as much as colonial formulations of liberty, property and individual rights did.

List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Mark Somos and Anne Peters -- 1 Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Melian Dialogue -- Benjamin Straumann -- 2 Missing Terms in English Geographical Thinking, 1550-1600 -- Mary C. Fuller -- 3 Do Shepherds Live in a State of Nature? From Peculium to Civilization -- Francesca Iurlaro -- 4 After Vitoria Natural Law and the Spanish Ideology of Empire -- Daniel S. Allemann -- 5 Fleeing " Polyphemus 's Den" Locke's State of Nature as Sanctuary -- Ioannis Evrigenis -- 6 Invisible People The State of Nature in Hugo Grotius' Account of Global Legal Order -- Emile Simpson -- 7 From the State of Nature to the State of Economy Pufendorf on Commerce and Natural Law -- David Singh Grewal -- 8 The State of Nature, the Family and the State -- Simone Zurbuchen -- 9 Written in the Hearts of People? Natural and International Law during the Age of Enlightenment -- Edward J. Kolla -- 10 From Natural Equality to Frankpledge The State of Nature, Ancient Constitutionalism, and the Rupture of the Social Contract in Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Writings -- Sarah Winter -- 11 From the State of Nature to the Natural State Transforming the Foundations of Science and Civil Progress in Eighteenth-Century British Political Thought -- Pamela Edwards -- 12 Their Own State(s) of Nature The Enlightenment Social Imaginary and the Invention of Hungarian Ethnic Origins -- László Kontler -- 13 The Place of the Environment in State of Nature Discourses Reassessing Nature, Property and Sovereignty in the Anthropocene -- Tom Sparks -- 14 The State of Nature, Prehistory, and Mythmaking -- Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall -- Index.