Private Property and the Origins of Nationalism in the United States and Norway The Making of Propertied Communities /

• Main Author: Fuglestad, Eirik Magnus (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: World history.; United States-History.; Europe-History.; Historical sociology.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; US History.; European History.; Historical Sociology.

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...

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.