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Dreams of a More Perfect Union.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (375 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801474712
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dreams of a More Perfect UnionDDC classification:
  • 320.54/0973/09033
LOC classification:
  • JK31 -- .K47 2001eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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