American Nationalisms : Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833 (Paperback)

Introduction; Part I. Imagining Union: 1. Imagining nationalism in an age of statehood; 2. Local preachers, Thanksgiving sermons, and New England's national covenant; Part II. Imagining Disunion: 3. (Re)constructing state, nation, and empire in the Second War with Great Britain; 4. Liberty, slavery, and the rise of sectionalism; 5. The nullification crisis and the fracturing of national interests; Epilogue: the boundaries of America's nationalist imagination.