American Nationalisms - Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a 'nation' meant during the first fifty years of the country's existence.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Imagining Union: 1. Imagining nationalism in an age of statehood; 2. Local preachers, Thanksgiving sermons, and New England's national covenant; Part II. Imagining Disunion: 3. (Re)constructing state, nation, and empire in the Second War with Great Britain; 4. Liberty, slavery, and the rise of sectionalism; 5. The nullification crisis and the fracturing of national interests; Epilogue: the boundaries of America's nationalist imagination.

About the author

Benjamin E. Park currently serves as an assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University, Texas. He received graduate degrees in religion, politics, and history from the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge. He has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston University's American Political History Institute, and the University of Missouri's Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. His publications have appeared in Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Studies, Journal of American Studies, and American Nineteenth Century History.

Summary

Traces how Americans imagined forms of nationality during the country's first five decades within the context of European discussions taking place at the same time. Focusing on three case studies - Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina - this book demonstrates how citizens in different states imagined competing forms of federalism in the fifty years following independence.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin E Park, Benjamin E. Park, PARK BENJAMIN E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108414203
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41420-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Nationalism, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, C 1700 To C 1800