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Author |
: Gary W. Gallagher |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 443 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813932828 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813932823 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Political Nation by : Gary W. Gallagher
This impressive collection joins the recent outpouring of exciting new work on American politics and political actors in the mid-nineteenth century. For several generations, much of the scholarship on the political history of the period from 1840 to 1877 has carried a theme of failure; after all, politicians in the antebellum years failed to prevent war, and those of the Civil War and Reconstruction failed to take advantage of opportunities to remake the nation. Moving beyond these older debates, the essays in this volume ask new questions about mid-nineteenth-century American politics and politicians. In A Political Nation, the contributors address the dynamics of political parties and factions, illuminate the presence of consensus and conflict in American political life, and analyze elections, voters, and issues. In addition to examining the structures of the United States Congress, state and local governments, and other political organizations, this collection emphasizes political leaders--those who made policy, ran for office, influenced elections, and helped to shape American life from the early years of the Second Party System to the turbulent period of Reconstruction. The book moves chronologically, beginning with an antebellum focus on how political actors behaved within their cultural surroundings. The authors then use the critical role of language, rhetoric, and ideology in mid-nineteenth-century political culture as a lens through which to reevaluate the secession crisis. The collection closes with an examination of cultural and institutional influences on politicians in the Civil War and Reconstruction years. Stressing the role of federalism in understanding American political behavior, A Political Nation underscores the vitality of scholarship on mid-nineteenth-century American politics. Contributors: Erik B. Alexander, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Jean Harvey Baker, Goucher College - William J. Cooper, Louisiana State University - Daniel W. Crofts, The College of New Jersey - William W. Freehling, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities - Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia - Sean Nalty, University of Virginia - Mark E. Neely Jr., Pennsylvania State University - Rachel A. Shelden, Georgia College and State University - Brooks D. Simpson, Arizona State University - J. Mills Thornton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Author |
: Bruce Kuklick |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2019-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781352007237 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1352007231 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Political History of the USA by : Bruce Kuklick
This book is an engaging account of US history from the first European contact with the 'New World' to the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Bruce Kuklick's straightforward yet authoritative narrative takes students through the complexities of US history without oversimplifying of requiring prior knowledge. Placing politics in the context of religious culture and exploring America's assertive expansion throughout history, A Political History of the USA is supported by wide-ranging examples, vivid extracts from primary sources, maps and illustrations which illuminate the main text. The historical narrative it presents is concise, nuanced and sharply drawn. Offering a compelling yet balanced account of US political, cultural and religious history, this is essential reading for undergraduate students of History and American Studies. New to this Edition: - More emphasis on the religious dimensions of the American story, explaining the continuing relevance of evangelical Christians - A new chapter on the period since 2008 - Incorporation of new research - Discussion of the paradox of modernism and religion in America - A revised bibliography, including more 'classic' works
Author |
: Joel Silbey |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 1994-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804766661 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804766665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 by : Joel Silbey
This is a detailed analysis and description of a unique era in American political history, one in which political parties were the dominant dynamic force at work structuring and directing the political world.
Author |
: Edward Weisband |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2015-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317254102 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317254104 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States by : Edward Weisband
This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines the rise and gradual universalization of modern sovereign nation-states. Contemporary debates concerning nationality, nationalism, citizenship, and hyphenated identities are engaged. The authors recount the making of political culture in the American nation-state and look at the processes of internal colonialism in the American experience, examining how major ethnic, sectarian, racial, and other distinctions arose and congealed into social and cultural categories. The book concludes with a study of the Holocaust, genocide, crimes against humanity, and the political cultures of violation in post-colonial Rwanda and in racialized ethno-political conflicts in various parts of the world. Struggles over legitimacy in nation-building and state-building are at the heart of this new take on the important role of political culture.
Author |
: Harris Mylonas |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2013-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139619813 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139619810 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Nation-Building by : Harris Mylonas
What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups - individuals perceived as an ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state - are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its relations with the external patrons of these groups. Through a detailed study of the Balkans, Mylonas shows that how a state treats a non-core group within its own borders is determined largely by whether the state's foreign policy is revisionist or cleaves to the international status quo, and whether it is allied or in rivalry with that group's external patrons. Mylonas injects international politics into the study of nation-building, building a bridge between international relations and the comparative politics of ethnicity and nationalism.
Author |
: Steven Hahn |
Publisher |
: Belknap Press |
Total Pages |
: 610 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 067401765X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674017658 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis A Nation Under Our Feet by : Steven Hahn
Emphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of the Civil War, revealing a "nation" under construction.
Author |
: Darrell M. West |
Publisher |
: Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2019-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815736929 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815736924 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Divided Politics, Divided Nation by : Darrell M. West
Why are Americans so angry with each other? The United States is caught in a partisan hyperconflict that divides politicians, communities—and even families. Politicians from the president to state and local office-holders play to strongly-held beliefs and sometimes even pour fuel on the resulting inferno. This polarization has become so intense that many people no longer trust anyone from a differing perspective. Drawing on his personal story of growing up as a fundamentalist Christian on a dairy farm in rural Ohio, then as an academic in the heart of the liberal East Coast establishment, Darrell West analyzes the economic, cultural, and political aspects of polarization. He takes advantage of his experiences inside both conservative and liberal camps to explain the views of each side and offer insights into why each is angry with the other. West argues that societal tensions have metastasized into a dangerous tribalism that seriously threatens U.S. democracy. Unless people can bridge these divisions and forge a new path forward, it will be impossible to work together, maintain a functioning democracy, and solve the country's pressing policy problems.
Author |
: Azar Gat |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 451 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107007857 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107007852 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nations by : Azar Gat
A groundbreaking study of the foundations of nationalism, exposing its antiquity, strong links with ethnicity and roots in human nature.
Author |
: Len Scales |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 2005-06-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1139444727 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781139444729 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power and the Nation in European History by : Len Scales
Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspectives, which view the political nation as a phenomenon limited to modern, industrialised societies, from the views of scholars concerned with the pre-industrial world who insist, often vehemently, that nations were central to pre-modern political life also. This book engages with these questions by drawing on the expertise of leading medieval, early modern and modern historians.
Author |
: Steven Elliott Grosby |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 161 |
Release |
: 2005-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192840981 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192840983 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction by : Steven Elliott Grosby
Throughout history, humanity has borne witness to the political and moral challenges that arise when people place national identity above allegiance to geo-political states or international communities. This book discusses the concept of nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, geological, theological and anthropological perspectives. It examines the subject through conflicts past and present, including recent conflicts in the Balkans and the Middle East, rather than exclusively focusing on theory. Above all, this fascinating and comprehensive work clearly shows how feelings of nationalism are an inescapable part of being human.