Young America : the transformation of nationalism before the Civil War / Mark Power Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Mark Power, author.

Series:

A nation divided: studies in the civil war era

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--United States.

Nationalism.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Democratic Party (U.S.).

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages).

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index.

ISBN:

9780813948546

OCLC:

1312893492