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Title This Sacred Trust : American Nationality 1778-1898
Published Oxford University Press, USA 1971

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Description 1 online resource (392 pages)
Contents INTRODUCTION -- ONE: SURVIVAL: 1798-1815 -- TWO: SEARCH: 1815-1848 -- THREE: ATONEMENT: 1848-1865 -- FOUR: RENEWAL: 1865-1876 -- FIVE: ESCAPE: 1876-1898 -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary Nagel's classic work deals with nineteenth-century America's coming awareness as a nation and its agonizing struggle to turn itself into a model republic. He perceptively explores the growth of American nationalism in its political, social, religious, economic, and literary implications. Theresulting book is a vivid portrait of how America viewed itself, what concerned it deeply, and ultimately, of those forces in society that led to a new spirit of militant nationalism
Subject Nationalism -- United States
Civilization
Nationalism
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139939
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1280522747
9781280522741