By Rochelle Raineri Zuck
Rochelle Raineri Zuck argues that, within the many years among the ratification of the structure and the ebook of Sutton GriggsÆs novel Imperium in Imperio in 1899, 4 populations have been traditionally often called racial and ethnic countries in the country: the Cherokees, African american citizens, Irish american citizens, and chinese language immigrants. Writers and orators from those teams engaged the idea that of divided sovereignty to say replacement visions of sovereignty and collective allegiance (not simply ethnic or racial identity), to realize political traction, and to complicate present formations of nationhood and citizenship. Their tales intersected with matters that ruled nineteenth-century public argument and contributed to the Civil War.
In 5 chapters fascinated by those teams, Zuck finds how structures of sovereignty make clear a number of issues together with nearby and sectional tensions; territorial enlargement and jurisdiction; fiscal uncertainty; racial, ethnic, and spiritual modifications; diplomacy; immigration; and arguments approximately personhood, citizenship, and nationhood.
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