Private property and the origins of nationalism in the United States and Norway : the making of propertied communities / Eirik Magnus Fuglestad.
2018
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Title
Private property and the origins of nationalism in the United States and Norway : the making of propertied communities / Eirik Magnus Fuglestad.
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9783319899503 (electronic book)
3319899503 (electronic book)
331989949X
9783319899497
3319899503 (electronic book)
331989949X
9783319899497
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
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©2018
Language
English
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KF562
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.17
Summary
In the eighteenth century, before a national political movement took hold in either the United States or Norway, both countries were agrarian societies marked by widespread private land ownership. Tracing the emergence and development of national ideology in each, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad argues that land ownership became tied up with these national ideologies and was ultimately a central driver of nationalism. In this book, the United States and Norway emerge as propertied communities, shaped by historical narratives of self-government and by property regimes that linked popular sovereignty with land ownership. Covering the mid-eighteenth century through industrialization in the nineteenth century, this book lays the groundwork for understanding the rise of nationalism as an agrarian, landed phenomenon, which later became the foundation of industrial society.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: A property rights perspective in the study of nationalism
I. Agrarian Moment: Land and Freedom
2. America: "Destined to let freedom grow"
3. Norway: "A free constitution ... was centuries in the making"
II. Industrial Moment: Land to Labour
4. The industrial moment in America: "Irrepressible conflict"
5. The industrial transformation in Norway: The will of the people
III. Conclusions
6. The nation as propertied community.
I. Agrarian Moment: Land and Freedom
2. America: "Destined to let freedom grow"
3. Norway: "A free constitution ... was centuries in the making"
II. Industrial Moment: Land to Labour
4. The industrial moment in America: "Irrepressible conflict"
5. The industrial transformation in Norway: The will of the people
III. Conclusions
6. The nation as propertied community.