| Divided Sovereignties: Race, Nationhood, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America Subjects: Minorities -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Sovereignty -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Political; In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debates about the constructions of American nationhood and national citizenship, the frequently invoked concept of divided sovereignty signified the division of power between state and federal authorities and/or the possibility of one nation residing within the geopolitical boundaries of another. Political and social realities of the nineteenth century--such as immigration, slavery, westward expansion, Indigenous treaties, and financial panics--amplified anxieties about threats to national/state sovereignty. ROCHELLE RAINERI ZUCK is an associate professor of English at Iowa State University. Some of her most recent articles appear in scholarly journals such as American Periodicals, Journal of American Studies , and Studies in American Indian Literatures . Her current projects include a scholarly edition of James Fenimore Cooper's 1848 novel Oak Openings; or, The Bee-Hunter and a book on American Indian newspapers and periodicals. |