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"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 rhetorical means by which Americans expressed shared ideals and a common identity without invoking strong nationalism or centralized governance.

Through his exploration of how Americans once succeeded in uniting a diverse and fragmented citizenry, Kersh revives a long-forgotten source of U.S. national identity.".

"Why and how did Americans perceive themselves as one people from the early history of the republic? How did African Americans and others at the margins of U.S. civic culture apply this concept of union? Why did the term disappear from use after the 1880s?

In his search for answers, Kersh employs a wide range of methods, including political-theory analysis of writings by James Madison, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln and empirical analysis drawing on his own extensive database of American newspapers. The author's findings are persuasive - and often surprising. One intriguing development, for instance, was a strong resurgence of union feelings among Southerners - including prominent former secessionists - after the Civil War.".

"Dreams of a More Perfect Union offers valuable insights about American political history, especially the rise of nationalism and federalism. Equally important, the author's close retracing of the religious, institutional, and other themes coloring the development of unionist thought unveils new knowledge about the origination and transmittal of ideas in a polity."--BOOK JACKET.

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358

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Dreams of a More Perfect Union
2013, Cornell University Press
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January 2005, Cornell University Press
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Dreams of a More Perfect Union
2003, Stanford University Press
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2001, Cornell University Press
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Table of Contents

The rhetorical genesis of American political union
A theory of political union emerges, 1780s-1820s
National unity and nation-building, 1820s-1850s
Conceiving a more moral union, 1850s-1865
The terms of reunion
The ends of union, 1877-1898.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-349) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.54/0973/09033
Library of Congress
JK31 .K47 2001, JK31.K47 2001, JK 31 K47 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 358 p. :
Number of pages
358

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6776961M
Internet Archive
dreamsofmoreperf00kers
ISBN 10
0801438128
LCCN
00010766
OCLC/WorldCat
44802858
Library Thing
2314852
Goodreads
2609405

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A familiar British American sermon text from Puritan to revolutionary times was Zechariah II, which recounts Jerusalem's destruction through the parable of a shepherd pasturing his flock.
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