Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood
by Robert E. BonnerEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-04-27
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
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 the crucial role these men and women played in the development of American imperialism, constitutionalism, evangelicalism, and popular patriotism.
Table of Contents
| 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 | |
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