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Young America : The Transformation of Nationalism before the Civil War /

"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 intervent...

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Autor principal: Smith, Mark Power (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.