Robert Bonner

Mastering America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recounts efforts of 'proslavery nationalists' to navigate the nineteenth-century geopolitics of imperialism, federalism, and nationalism and to articulate themes of American mission in overtly proslavery terms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780521541770
• ISBN-10: 0521541778
• Artikelnr.: 26033455

Autorenporträt

Robert Bonner earned his A.B. at Princeton University and his PhD at Yale University. He has held teaching positions at the University of Southern Maine, Michigan State University, and Amherst College, and currently teaches at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South (2002) and The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the American Civil War (2006), as well as articles in Journal of Southern History, Civil War History, and Reviews in American History.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Geopolitics of Mastery: 1. Slaveholders' stake in the American empire
2. The compound republic and the cause of the south
Part II. The Contours of Proslavery Americanism: 3. Republican masters and American mission
4. Reformed masters and the gospel of nationhood
5. Fragments of the past, histories for the future
6. Yankees as apostates and allies in the American 1850s
Part III. Confederate Nationhood and the Revolutions of War: 7. The anatomy of confederate nationhood
8. Reckoning with confederate purpose
9. Liberty, slavery, and the burdens of confederate nationhood.