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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 interventionist internationalism, and in so doing helped to foster the political instability and polarization that paved the road to Civil War.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.