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Young America : The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War
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Title
Young America : The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War / Mark Power Smith.
ISBN
9780813948546
9780813948539
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (292 pages).
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Summary
"Braiding intellectual with political history, this book offers a novel interpretation of the Young America movement, a branch of the Democratic Party in antebellum America deeply influenced by the 1848 Revolutions in Europe, whose adherents promoted a noxious brand of nationalism and interventionist internationalism, and in so doing helped to foster the political instability and polarization that paved the road to Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Series
A nation divided: studies in the civil war era
Contents
Introduction: Young America democrats-the post-Jacksonian generation
The intellectual culture of the Young American Movement, 1844-
The Dorr Rebellion: democracy, national rights, and the domestic politics of the 1840s
Global transformations: territorial expansion and democratic politics
Nature and the political order: Young America and the European Revolutions of
Cuban Annexation and the problem of slavery
A state of nature: slavery and the crisis of democracy, 1854-
Popular sovereignty and the struggle against slavery, 1857-
Conclusion: liberal nationalism in an age of civil wars.
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