Private Property and the Origins of Nationalism in the United States and Norway
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
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Private Property and the Origins of Nationalism in the United States and Norway
Eirik Magnus Fuglestad
Private Property and the Origins of Nationalism in the United States and Norway The Making of Propertied Communities
Eirik Magnus Fuglestad Ruralis—Institute for Rural and Regional Research Trondheim, Norway
ISBN 978-3-319-89949-7 ISBN 978-3-319-89950-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89950-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018940736 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Eidsvoll 1814 by Oscar Wergeland/Archives of the Storting Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
For my parents, Tom and Brit Fuglestad, and to the smallholding farm of Langeli, where I grew up
Foreword
Debates about the origins of modern nationalism have tended to revolve around questions of the relative importance of pre-existing ethnic and cultural identities, the impact of new communication technologies, and the functional demands of industrial economics and centralized states for more unified and integrated populations. Eirik Fuglestad brings a new perspective on these debates by focussing on a crucial but often neglected issue—the role of private property in this process. This approach enables him to do two novel things. One is to get beneath treatments of nationalism as a general effect of capitalism or class-based politics, to explore the formal connections between concepts of property and sovereignty that were transforming together in the same historical context. It turns out the ideas of citizens securely owning their own property,
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