TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kersh,Rogan
TI  - Dreams of a More Perfect Union
SN  - 9780801474712
AV  - JK31 -- .K47 2001eb 
U1  - 320.54/0973/09033 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
KW  - Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
KW  - United States -- Politics and government -- 18th century
KW  - United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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