Dreams of a More Perfect Union.
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Cover -- Dreams of a More Perfect Union -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. The Rhetorical Genesis of American Political Union -- CHAPTER 2. A Theory of 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.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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