Traces how Americans imagined forms of nationality during the country's first five decades within the context of European discussions taking place at the same time. Focusing on three case studies - Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina - this book demonstrates how citizens in different states imagined competing forms of federalism in the fifty years following independence.
Traces how Americans imagined forms of nationality during the country's first five decades within the context of European discussions taking place at the same time. Focusing on three case studies - Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina - this book demonstrates how citizens in different states imagined competing forms of federalism in the fifty years following independence.
Benjamin E. Park currently serves as an assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University, Texas. He received graduate degrees in religion, politics, and history from the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge. He has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston University's American Political History Institute, and the University of Missouri's Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. His publications have appeared in Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Studies, Journal of American Studies, and American Nineteenth Century History.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Imagining Union: 1. Imagining nationalism in an age of statehood 2. Local preachers, Thanksgiving sermons, and New England's national covenant Part II. Imagining Disunion: 3. (Re)constructing state, nation, and empire in the Second War with Great Britain 4. Liberty, slavery, and the rise of sectionalism 5. The nullification crisis and the fracturing of national interests Epilogue: the boundaries of America's nationalist imagination.
Introduction Part I. Imagining Union: 1. Imagining nationalism in an age of statehood 2. Local preachers, Thanksgiving sermons, and New England's national covenant Part II. Imagining Disunion: 3. (Re)constructing state, nation, and empire in the Second War with Great Britain 4. Liberty, slavery, and the rise of sectionalism 5. The nullification crisis and the fracturing of national interests Epilogue: the boundaries of America's nationalist imagination.
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