Young America : the transformation of nationalism before the Civil War
Call #
JK2316 .S62 2022
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Book
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PubDate
2022
Summary
Braiding intellectual with political history, this book offers a novel interpretation of the Young America movement, a branch of the Democratic Party in antebellum America deeply influenced by the 1848 Revolutions in Europe, whose adherents promoted a noxious brand of nationalism and interventionist internationalism, and in so doing helped to foster the political instability and polarization that paved the road to Civil War--
Month and Year
Spring 2023