Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism Before the Civil War Power Smith Mark
Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism Before the Civil War Power Smith Mark The Young Americans were a nationalist movement within the Democratic Party made up of writers and politicians…
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Young America: The Transformation of Nationalism Before the Civil War Power Smith Mark
The Young Americans were a nationalist movement within the Democratic Party made up of writers and politicians associated with the New York periodical, the Democratic Review. The movement supported a noxious program of foreign interventionism, racial segregation, and cultural nationalism. In this revealing book, Mark Power Smith explores the ways in which-in dialogue with its critics-the movement forged contrasting visions of American nationalism in the decades leading up to the Civil War.Frustrated, fifty years after independence, by Britain's political and cultural influence on the United States, the Young Americans drew on a wide variety of intellectual authorities--in the fields of literature, political science, phrenology and international law--to tie popular sovereignty for white men to the universalist idea of natural rights.
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