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The specter of disunion in the early American republic, 1783--1815.

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Title/Author:	The specter of disunion in the early American republic, 1783--1815.
Author:	Wewers, Daniel Corbett.
Description:	368 p.
Notes:	Adviser: James T. Kloppenberg.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-04, Section: A, page: 1515.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-04A.
Subject:	Religion, History of.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3312564
ISBN:	9780549612179

The specter of disunion in the early American republic, 1783--1815.
Wewers, Daniel Corbett.

The specter of disunion in the early American republic, 1783--1815. - 368 p.

Adviser: James T. Kloppenberg.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2008.

Between 1783 and 1815, no specter haunted the American political imagination more than the prospect of the union's demise. Far from the preordained marriage of patriotic lore, the early American union was an impromptu coalition of heterogeneous elements. Once Americans secured their hard-won independence, the difficult work of perpetuating their accidental union began. This dissertation relates the story of that postwar struggle in the three decades between the American Revolution and the War of 1812, as early national citizens endeavored to locate a permanent basis for the post-Revolutionary union. Perennially aware of the union's diverse composition, American political thinkers regularly confronted the undesirable consequences of its dissolution. Disunion, they reckoned, had the potential to obliterate the recent gains of the Revolution and ensnare the newly independent states in domestic discord and foreign intrigue. In these unhappy visions of anarchy, despotism, and Europeanized politics, American statesmen discovered a new set of threats to their republican experiment, which served to replace British tyranny and wartime devastation as the common danger, or effective cement, of federal union. Finding mutual interest or affection among the various states lacking, early national Americans fell back on the shared menace of disunion's specter to hold their impromptu union together.

ISBN: 9780549612179Subjects--Topical Terms:

212706
Religion, History of.

The specter of disunion in the early American republic, 1783--1815.
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