Mastering America Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood

Name: Mastering America Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood
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ISBN: 9780521541770

ISBN-10: 0521541778

ISBN-13: 9780521541770

Edition: 2009

Authors: Robert E. Bonner, Robert E. Bonner

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Mastering America recounts efforts of "proslavery nationalists" to navigate the nineteenth-century geopolitics of imperialism, federalism, and nationalism and to articulate themes of American mission in overtly proslavery terms. At the heart of this study are spokesmen of the Southern "Master Class" who crafted a vision of American destiny that put chattel slavery at its center. Looking beyond previous studies of the links between these "proslavery nationalists" and secession, the book sheds new light on the relationship between the conservative Unionism of the 1850s and the key formulations of Confederate nationalism that arose during war in the 1860s. Bonner's innovative research charts…

Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English




The Geopolitics of Mastery



Slaveholders' stake in the American empire



The compound republic and the cause of the south



The Countours of Proslavery Americanism



Republican masters and American mission



Reformed masters and the gospel of nationhood



Fragments of the past, histories for the future



Yankees as apostates and allies in the American 1850s



Confederate Nationhood and the Revolutions of War



The anatomy of confederate nationhood



Reckoning with confederate purpose



Liberty, slavery, and the burdens of confederate nationhood