Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Pledging Allegiance 1 1 Loyalty, Oaths, and the Nation 17 2 One Big Happy Family, Again? 61 3 Pledging Allegiance in Henry James 100 4 Loyalty’s Slaves 137 5 Philosophies of Loyalty 179 Afterword 219 Notes 223 Index 263 ...