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Author Fanis, Maria

Title Secular morality and international security : American and British decisions about war / Maria Fanis
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011

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Description 1 online resource
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introduction : a theory of national interest and national identity formation -- In defense of the British empire : Great Britain's national identity of loyal patriotism and the War of 1812 -- In defense of the American republic : the American national identity of neo-Jeffersonian republicanism and liberal commerce -- The American national identity of romantic evangelicalism and the pacific resolution of the Oregon crisis -- Great Britain's national identity of evangelical free trade and the pacific resolution of the Oregon dispute
Summary Annotation Combining insights from cultural studies, gender studies, and social history, Maria Fanis shows the critical importance of national identity in decisions about war and peace
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index
Notes English
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Subject War -- Causes -- Case studies
National interest -- Case studies
Nationalism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies
National interest -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
National interest -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Oregon question.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
National interest
Nationalism
Nationalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
Oregon question
War -- Causes
SUBJECT United States -- History -- War of 1812. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140194
Subject Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020707090
ISBN 9780472026395
0472026399
9786613159830
6613159832