| Series |
A nation divided : studies in the civil war era
Nation divided. ^A476341
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| 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. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Power Smith, Mark, 1992- Young America The transformation of nationalism before the Civil War. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022 9780813948546 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022016239 |
| ISBN | 9780813948539 |
| ISBN | 0813948533 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
