Private Property and the Origins of Nationalism in the United States and Norway

The Making of Propertied Communities

Eirik Magnus Fuglestad (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XVII, 223 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-89949-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Eirik Magnus Fuglestad completed his PhD at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is currently employed at Ruralis - Institute for Rural and Regional Research, Norway.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 223 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	429 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
Schlagworte	American constitutional convention • American national movement • American Revolution • Declaration of Independence • Eidsvoll constitutional convention • history of land ownership • histrorical sociology • industrial nationalism • landed property • national idealogy • Nationalism • National Sovereignty • nation building • Norwegian National movement • popular sovereignty • Prince Christian Frederik's entry to Norway • property rights
ISBN-10	3-319-89949-X / 331989949X
ISBN-13	978-3-319-89949-7 / 9783319899497
Zustand	Neuware