Dreams of a More Perfect Union / / Rogan Kersh.
In a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and the late nineteenth century, he shows, "union" was the principal rhetorical means by which Americans expresse...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 3 tables, 10 charts |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. The Rhetorical Genesis if American Political Union
- CHAPTER 2. A Theory if Political Union Emerges, 1780s-1820s
- CHAPTER 3. National Unity and Nation-Building, 1820s-1850s
- CHAPTER 4. Conceiving a More Moral Union, 1850s-1865
- CHAPTER 5. The Terms of Reunion
- CHAPTER 6. The Ends of Union, 1877-1898
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix
- References
- Index