American Nationalisms

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-108-42037-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

America was born in an age of political revolution throughout the Atlantic world, a period when the very definition of 'nation' was transforming. Benjamin E. Park traces how Americans imagined novel 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 - Park examines the developing practices of nationalism in three specific contexts. He argues for a more elastic connection between nationalism and the nation-state by demonstrating that ideas concerning political and cultural allegiance to a federal body developed in different ways and at different rates throughout the nation. American Nationalisms explores how ideas of nationality permeated political disputes, religious revivals, patriotic festivals, slavery debates, and even literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Park, Benjamin E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Park, Benjamin E
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.