American nationalism

American nationalism
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 16:11:40 -0500


Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:56:30 -0700
From: "Richard B. Bernstein" < rbernstein@nyls.edu >
Subject: re: American nationalism

Regarding Beth Salerno's query, I've always maintained in my work that
American nationalism was, first and foremost, a political and
constitutional construct. I made that argument in Richard B. Bernstein
with Kym S. Rice, ARE WE TO BE A NATION? THE MAKING OF THE CONSTITUTION
(Harvard University Press, 1987) and in Richard B. Bernstein (with
Jerome Agel), AMENDING AMERICA: IF WE LOVE THE CONSTITUTION SO MUCH,
WHY DO WE KEEP TRYING TO CHANGE IT? (Times Books/Random House, 1993;
University Press of Kansas, 1995). (In the latter book, I examine the
history of the amending process as, among other things, a continuing
series of revisions to American national identity via amending its core
constitutional values and institutional arrangements. To my
disappointment, no reviewer of the book picked up on what I still think
is its central argument.) See also Richard R. Beeman, Stephen Botein,
and Edward C. Carter II, eds., BEYOND CONFEDERATION: DIMENSIONS OF THE
CONSTITUTION AND OF AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY (University of North
Carolina Press for IEAHC, 1987), especially John Murrin's essay, "A
Roof Without Walls."

Richard B. Bernstein
Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School
Daniel M. Lyons Visiting Professor in American History, Brooklyn
College/CUNY (1997-1998)
Assistant Book Review Editor for Constitutional History, H-LAW
< rbernstein@nyls.edu >

American Nationalism
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 16:13:38 -0500


Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:25:52 -0500
From: Ian Binnington < binningt@students.uiuc.edu >
Subject: Re: QUERY: American Nationalism

I recently had to put together a reading list for exactly this topic:
early
American nationalism and related subjects, and in light of Beth Salerno's
post I thought it might be of interest to members of the list. It isn't
necessarily comprehensive and I can't admit to having read all of these
works in their entirety.

******************************************
Ian Binnington
Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
binningt@uiuc.edu
******************************************

Select Bibliography on Early American Nationalism

Arieli, Yehoshua. Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology.
Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1966.

Brant, Irving. James Madison and American Nationalism. Princeton: Van
Nostrand Co. 1968.

Burbick, Joan. Healing the Republic: The Language of Health and the
Culture
of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994.

Commager, Henry Steele. Jefferson, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment. New
York: G. Braziller, 1975.

Dangerfield, George. The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828. New
York, Harper & Row, 1965.

Humphrey, Edward Frank. Nationalism and Religion in America, 1774-1789.
New
York, Russell & Russell, 1965.

Kammen, Michael G. Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of
Tradition
in American Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

Kohn, Hans. American Nationalism: An Interpretative Essay. New York,
Macmillan, 1957.

Merritt, Richard L. Symbols of American Community, 1735-1775. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1966.

Millican, Edward. One United People: The Federalist Papers and the
National
Idea. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

Nagel, Paul C. This Sacred Trust: American Nationality, 1798-1898. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Newman, Simon Peter. Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive
Culture in the Early American Republic. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania
Press, 1997.

Spencer, Benjamin Townley. The Quest for Nationality: An American Literary
Campaign. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1957.

Van Alstyne, Richard Warner. Genesis of American Nationalism. Waltham,
Mass.: Blaisdell Pub. Co., 1970.

Waldstreicher, David. In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of
American Nationalism, 1776-1820. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1997.

Wilson, Major L. Space, Time, and Freedom: The Quest for Nationality and
the Irrepressible Conflict, 1815-1861. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 1974.

Withington, Ann Fairfax. Toward a More Perfect Union: Virtue and the
Formation of American Republics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Zelinsky, Wilbur. Nation into State: The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of
American Nationalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1988.

American nationalism
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 20:24:15 -0500


From: svanbur@sprynet.com
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 18:35:39 -0400
Subject: Re: American nationalism

Beth Salerno should have a look at Steven Watt's book about nationalism
and the War of 1812. The notes can be followed into other, useful
writing.

Sandra F. VanBurkleo

svb

Sandra F. VanBurkleo
Associate Professor of History/Adjunct Professor of Law
Wayne State University
Department of History, 3094 FAB
Detroit, MI 48202
Office Phone: 313-577-6136
FAX: 313-577-6987
E-Mail: svanbur@sprynet.com
(Or) S_VanBurkleo@wayne.edu

"It is so much easier to analyze the world
than to try to change it." Hayden White (1959)

QUERY: American Nationalism
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 06:43:33 -0500


From: "Beth A. Salerno" < bethsalerno@aristotle.net >
Subject: QUERY: American Nationalism
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 98 20:31:30 PDT

Colleagues-

Given the theme of the upcoming SHEAR conference "The Invention of
American Nationalism(s)", I thought I would ask listmembers to suggest
their favorite (dare I say, "the best"?) article or book on this topic.
My searches of the university library and of various databases have
turned up surprisingly little, and I thought I would draw upon the
collected wisdom of H-Shear.

With appreciation,

Beth Salerno
University of Minnesota
bethsalerno@aristotle.net