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Dreams of a more perfect union /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kersh, Rogan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
United States > Politics and government > 18th century.
United States > Politics and government > 19th century.
Nationalism > United States > History > 18th century.
Nationalism > United States > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.