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 interventionist...
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Nation divided.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.