crisis of sovereignty: popular sovereignty and territorial claims in antebellum American literature.
Examining a variety of antebellum literature and other contemporaneous texts, this dissertation untangles the complex relationship between popular sovereignty--the belief that a government's power is derived from the people--and territory. I contend that the advent of popular sovereignty also t...
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