Overview
- Presents a historical comparative analysis of nationalism in the United States and Norway from 1760 through 1880
- Argues that widespread individual ownership of land became central to the concept of national popular sovereignty
- Offers new insights into how agrarian societies transition to industrialism
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Agrarian Moment: Land and Freedom
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Industrial Moment: Land to Labour
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Conclusions
Keywords
- Nationalism
- Nation building
- history of land ownership
- property rights
- national sovereignty
- industrial nationalism
- landed property
- American national movement
- American revolution
- Declaration of Independence
- American constitutional convention
- Norwegian National movement
- Prince Christian Frederik's entry to Norway
- Eidsvoll constitutional convention
- popular sovereignty
- national idealogy
- histrorical sociology
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Private Property and the Origins of Nationalism in the United States and Norway
Book Subtitle: The Making of Propertied Communities
Authors: Eirik Magnus Fuglestad
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89950-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89949-7Published: 15 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07902-4Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89950-3Published: 01 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 223
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, US History, European History, Historical Sociology