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Rochelle Raineri Zuck - Divided Sovereignties - 9780820345420 - V9780820345420
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Divided Sovereignties

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Description for Divided Sovereignties Hardcover. Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs s novel "Imperium in Imperio" in 1899, four populations were most often referred to as racial and ethnic nations within the nation: the Cherokees, African Americans, Irish Americans, and Chinese immigrants." Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; JFSL1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debates about the constructions of American nationhood and national citizenship, the frequently invoked concept of divided sovereignty signified the division of power between state and federal authorities and/or the possibility of one nation residing within the geopolitical boundaries of another. Political and social realities of the nineteenth century—such as immigration, slavery, westward expansion, Indigenous treaties, and financial panics—amplified anxieties about threats to national/state sovereignty.

Rochelle Raineri Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs’s novel Imperium in Imperio in 1899, four populations were most often referred to as racial and ethnic nations within the nation: the Cherokees, African Americans, Irish Americans, and Chinese immigrants. Writers and orators from these groups engaged the concept of divided sovereignty to assert alternative visions of sovereignty and collective allegiance (not just ethnic or racial identity), to gain political traction, and to complicate existing formations of nationhood and citizenship. Their stories intersected with issues that dominated nineteenth-century public argument and contributed to the Civil War.

In five chapters focused on these groups, Zuck reveals how constructions of sovereignty shed light on a host of concerns including regional and sectional tensions; territorial expansion and jurisdiction; economic uncertainty; racial, ethnic, and religious differences; international relations; immigration; and arguments about personhood, citizenship, and nationhood.

Product Details

Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820345420
SKU
V9780820345420
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About Rochelle Raineri Zuck
ROCHELLE RAINERI ZUCK is an associate professor of English at Iowa State University. Some of her most recent articles appear in scholarly journals such as American Periodicals, Journal of American Studies, and Studies in American Indian Literatures. Her current projects include a scholarly edition of James Fenimore Cooper’s 1848 novel Oak Openings; or, The Bee-Hunter and a book on American Indian newspapers and periodicals.

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