Dreams of a more perfect union /
"In a Brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and the late nineteenth century, he shows, "union" was the principal rhetorical means by which Americans ex...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
©2001.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The rhetorical genesis of American political union
- A theory of political union emerges, 1780s-1820s
- National unity and nation-building, 1820s-1850s
- Conceiving a more moral union, 1850s-1865
- The terms of reunion
- The ends of union, 1877-1898.