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Break It Up
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Dieser Artikel gilt, aufgrund seiner Grösse, beim Versand als 3 Artikel!
| Lieferstatus: |
 Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt) |
| Veröffentlichung: |
November 2024
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| Genre: |
Geschichte / Politik / Kultur |
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1800s / America / books / C 1700 To C 1800 / c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period) / c 1783 to c 1800 (American Federalist era) / California Republic / Cascadia / Central / national / federal government / Central government / Central Southern States / Congress / Constitution / dad / Epic history / Gifts / Historical / History / HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) / HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) / HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) / HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) / history buffs / History of the Americas / Journalism / Local History / Modern history to 20th century# c 1700 to c 1900 / Mom / Nonfiction / Northeastern & North Atlantic States / POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General / Political structure & processes / Political structure and processes / presidents / secede from union / Secession / South / Southern / Texas / United States / United States of America, USA / US Northeast# Mid-Atlantic States / US South / US West / USA / Western & Pacific Coast states / White House |
| ISBN: |
9780316510578 |
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9780316510578 |
| Verlag: |
Workman |
| Einband: |
Kartoniert |
| Sprache: |
English
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| Seiten: |
496 |
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From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a examination of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up.
"A powerful revisionist account." —Eric Foner, American historian and author of The Second Founding
The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: The United States has never lived up to its name—and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn’t limited to the South or the nineteenth century. It was there at our founding and has never gone away.
With a scholar’s command and a journalist’s curiosity, Richard Kreitner takes readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, revealing the power and persistence of disunion movements in every era and region. Each New England town after Plymouth was a secession from another; the thirteen colonies viewed their Union as a means to the end of securing independence, not an end in itself; George Washington feared separatism west of the Alleghenies; Aaron Burr schemed to set up a new empire; John Quincy Adams brought a Massachusetts town’s petition for dissolving the United States to the floor of Congress; and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison denounced the Constitution as a pro-slavery pact with the devil.
From the “cold civil war” that pits partisans against one another to the modern secession movements in California and Texas, the divisions that threaten to tear America apart today have centuries-old roots in the earliest days of our Republic. Richly researched and persuasively argued, Break It Up will help readers make fresh sense of our fractured age. |
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