Young America - 9780813948539

Young AmericaThe Transformation of Nationalism Before the Civil War\nAuthor(s): Mark Power Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813948539, 978-0813948539\nSynopsis\nThe Young Americans were a nationalist movement within the Democratic Party made up of writers and politicians associated with the New York periodical, the Democratic Review. In this revealing book, Mark Power Smith explores the ways in whichin dialogue with its criticsthe movement forged contrasting visions of American nationalism in the decades leading up to the Civil War.\n\nFrustrated, fifty years after independence, by Britains political and cultural influence on the United States, the Young Americans drew on a wide variety of intellectual authoritiesin the fields of literature, political science, phrenology and international lawto tie popular sovereignty for white men to the universalist idea of natural rights. The moveme.