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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100190876514

ISBN-139780190876517

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Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWe Are Not One People : Secession and Separatism in American Politics since 1776

Publication Year2022

SubjectGeneral, United States / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

AuthorR. Jarrod Atchison, Michael J. Lee

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight13.1 Oz

Item Length5.5 in

Item Width8.2 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-036248

Reviews"Unity is regarded as one of the founding myths of the US, but the authors of this book explore the subject of disunion in the national psyche and maintain that it is a founding tradition as well...this book brings important thoughts to contemporary discussions of union and disunion in the US." -- Choice "We are not One People offers a new way to understand the challenge of balancing interests in multicultural societies that seek political unity." -- Kyle Scott, Sam Houston State University, USA, We are not One People offers a new way to understand the challenge of balancing interests in multicultural societies that seek political unity., "We are not One People offers a new way to understand the challenge of balancing interests in multicultural societies that seek political unity." -- Kyle Scott, Sam Houston State University, USA, "Unity is regarded as one of the founding myths of the US, but the authors of this book explore the subject of disunion in the national psyche and maintain that it is a founding tradition as well...this book brings important thoughts to contemporary discussions of union and disunion in the US." -- Choice"We are not One People offers a new way to understand the challenge of balancing interests in multicultural societies that seek political unity." -- Kyle Scott, Sam Houston State University, USA

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal973

Table Of ContentPrologue Chapter 1: Bands, Bonds, and Affections Chapter 2: Secession All the Way Down: Libertarians Opt Out Chapter 3: "A Slave Republic": Secession and Southern Slavery Chapter 4: White Devils and Black Separatists Chapter 5: "Dykes First": Lesbian Separatism in America Chapter 6: Exodus as Secession: Achieving God's Terrestrial Kingdom Chapter 7: Conclusion Index

SynopsisE pluribus unum was suggested for the national seal in 1776, but national oneness has been haunted by its opposite ever since. We Are Not One People demonstrates how the persistence of separatist movements in American history reveals as much about the nation's politics as it does the would-be separatists. Each chapter explores how great swaths of Americans of every ideological stripe, in good times and bad, in and beyond the South, have disputed the nation's oneness and stressed its divisibility. Trumpeted in American myths, mottos, movies, and songs, separatism is omnipresent in American political culture. Separatist rhetoric has shaped Americans' experience of what it means to be an American, and we can learn much about the durable appeal and enduring fragility of the United States from those who tried to leave it. As one Vermont separatist quips, leaving is as American "as apple pie." We Are Not One People is a bold, pathbreaking, and far-reaching account of disunionists from 1776 to the present who wanted, as phrased in the Declaration of Independence, "to dissolve the political bands" connecting them to other Americans., We Are Not One People is a far-reaching account of the varied disunionists who have unmade the nation since its separation from Great Britain. Michael J. Lee and R. Jarrod Atchison argue that separatism is endemically American, and the persistence of American separatism reveals as much about the nation's political culture as it does the would-be separatists. Separatist rhetoric has shaped Americans' experience of what it means to be an American, and we can learn much about the durable appeal and enduring fragility of the United States from those who tried to leave it.

LC Classification NumberE183.L38 2022